3 held for sale of Remdesivir on the black market in Faridabad

Tribune News Service
Faridabad, May 4

The police have arrested three persons in connection with the alleged black marketing of the Remdesivir injection. Seven injections were recovered from the accused in two different cases.

Cops laid a trap after it was learnt that a man and his son from Sector 75 here were involved in the activity. The police said an official, posing as a customer, contacted one of the accused and asked for some injections. He said the accused, identified as Virender (58) and his son Atul (29), were nabbed by a team of cops and officials of the Drug Control Department, after they reached the Golden gate locality to supply the injection at Rs 35,000 each around noon.

The normal market price of the injection is between Rs 1,600 and Rs 3,000 depending upon the brand, according to market sources.

In the second incident, the police nabbed Hitesh Palta, a resident of Sector 28 here, who had similar modus operandi. Two injections were recovered from him, the police said.

A case under the Essential Commodities Act and the National Disaster Management Act was registered against the accused. While Palta was remanded to one-day police custody, the other two accused were remanded to judicial custody.