A man has been taken into custody in Bargarh, Odisha for allegedly making and intending to selling fake COVID-19 vaccines, said police as per a PTI report.?
Prahallad Bisi is 32 and a class 7 dropout. A case has been registered after Drug Control Administration officials along with the cops raided his homer Rushuda under the Bheden Police station area.?
Twelve bottles of fake injections, labels and syringes were seized.?
Sashmita Dehury, Drug Inspector of Bargarh , said she got a tip that Bisi was claiming to have made a COVID-19 vaccine and had planned to sell it in the market.?
"We have seized injection vials with a label reading 'COVID-19 vaccine' from the possession of the accused," she said.?
"If required we will send those glass vials for testing after taking permission from the court," she added.?
"When we asked him how he made the vaccine and what the ingredients were, he told us that it was top-secret and he would not reveal it," said S Mallick, Drug Inspector of Sambalpur.?
"We also found in his house some fake injections for the treatment of infertility. Labels reading Ovu Stop was there on those fake injections," he added.?
Bisi claimed his "COVID-19 vaccine" was "100 per cent successful".?