While COVID patients continue to gasp for oxygen and scramble for life-saving drugs on social media, an inter-state gang is found to be supplying spurious Remdesivir injections in Madhya Pradesh.
The racket supplied at least 1,200 fake Remdesivir? injections, which contained glucose water and salt, in Madhya Pradesh in the last one month, the state police said.
These injections were sold as genuine Remdesivir, which is in high demand for treating COVID-19 patients, at exorbitant rates, a probe has revealed.
The Gujarat Police recently busted this racket in Surat and arrested six persons, Indore's Vijay Nagar police station inspector Tahjib Kaji told PTI.
"Investigation revealed that the gang with the help of one Sunil Mishra had supplied 1,200 fake Remdesivir injections in Madhya Pradesh in the last month," he said.
Inspector Kaji said Kaushal Vora, who was among the six persons arrested in Gujarat, had delivered a consignment of 700 fake injections to Mishra in Indore.
Mishra later went to Surat and brought a consignment of another 500 spurious injections, the police officer said.
"Of these 1,200 fake injections, 200 were sent to adjoining Dewas district from Indore, while 500 others were delivered to one Sapan Jain in Jabalpur," he added.
Five accomplices were arrested in Indore.
The gang was charging? anywhere between Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000 per injection.
Police have seized seven such injections, manufactured in Gujarat, with the same batch numbers in Indore.