Kolar police has arrested one person who, along with his nurse girlfriend, was involved in black marketing of Remdesivir injection and recovered one injection while his aide nurse escaped.
Shocking revelations were made by the accused, identified as Jhalkhan Singh Meena was nabbed near JK hospital, he told police that his nurse girlfriend Shalini Verma who works as nurse with JK hospital LN Medical college used to provide Remdesivir injection and which he would sell at exorbitant price.
More heinously, Shalini Verma would inject normal saline and keep empty Remdesivir injection and would sell the injection from Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000.
Shalini would stole injection from the stocks meant for the patients undergoing treatment of Covid-19 and instead of administering she would replace, stole and sell with the help of his boyfriend Jhalkhan.
The nabbed accused revealed that he sold, one injection to doctor Shubham at JK hospital at Rs 13,000 on April 16.
The injection recovered from the accused had a printed price of Rs 3,950 but it could fetch him over Rs 30,000. Accused works with JK hospital and has sold Remdesivir earlier also details of which are under investigation.
Arrested accused work as compounder while Shamili works as nurse. After the accused was arrested his aide nurse got alert and escape from the hospital.
After the initial investigation police have registered a case under sections 379, 269 and 270 of the IPC, sections 53 and 57 of the Disaster Management Act 2005, sections 5 and 13 MP Drug Control Act, Section 3 Epidemic Act, sections 3 and 7 of the Essential Commodities Act and 5 and 13 of Madhya Pradesh Drugs control Act.