Kolar police have nabbed three persons involved in black marketing of Remdesivir injection from Mandakini square and recovered 5 injections and a car from their possession on Thursday.
Police said that it had acted on a tip-off about the black marketing of Remdesivir injection. Three persons in a car were detained and when car was checked 5 injections were recovered from their possession.
The nabbed accused were identified as Ankit Saluja (36), Dilpreet alias Nanu Saluja (26) and Akarsh Saxena (25).
Police have seized car bearing registration number MP04CW0491. Initially when police asked the accused to move out of car the accused tried to escape but were chased and nabbed.
During the investigation police recovered a box in which injection Hetero RX Remdesivir injection 100 mg/200 ml COVIFOR 6 Vials batch no. HCL21010 mfg date 04/2021 exp date 03/2022 were found.
Ankit Saluja revealed that he bought 1 injection from Akash Dubey in April at Rs 25000 and in the month of May bought 5 injections at Rs 12000 per injection and around 2-3 days back bought 5 injections at Rs 18000 each.
