Crime Branch cracks down on faux Remdesivir manufacturing unit, 5 held

Days after two males have been arrested for alleged black advertising and marketing of Remdesivir, a drug used to deal with Covid-19 sufferers, the Crime Branch’s Inter-State-Cell unearthed a ‘pharmaceutical’ unit at Kothdwar, Uttarakhand, which was manufacturing faux Remdesivir injections. Police have arrested 5 individuals, together with a girl, and located that they’ve offered 2,000 injections up to now.
Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava tweeted a video, saying: “Delhi Police working on useful information arrested five culprits in a prolonged investigation and unearthed a ‘pharmaceutical’ unit at Kothdwar, Uttarakhand, manufacturing large quantities of fake Remdesivir injections (COVIPRI) sold at price over Rs 25000… In all, 196 ready to sell fake Remdesivir injections were seized. From the premises, packing machines, 3,000 empty vials for packing Remdesivir were recovered. Accused further disclosed that he already sold 2,000 fake Remdesivir injections to desperate people.”
Last week, a group led by ACP Sandeep Lamba had arrested two males – Mohammed Shoaib and Mohan Jha – from outdoors Batra cinema after they had come to gather cash after giving injections.
“During investigation, police came to know about their other gang members and arrested two more persons from Delhi. On their instance, police conducted raids and arrested one Vatan Kumar Saini from Roorkee. He was running a manufacturing unit and police also found that his unit was earlier sealed by the drug department of Uttarakhand,” a senior police officer stated.

“We then came to know that there is a chain of persons involved in this syndicate of illegally supplying drugs for treatment of Covid-19 patients. Two accused work as medicine representatives and after getting fake medicine, they were circulating their numbers on social media. They started selling at a cost between Rs 25,000 and Rs 40,000 and circulated their numbers on social media,” an officer stated.