The Gujarat police on Saturday Busted a factory in Surat, which was allegedly manufacturing fake Remdesivir injections, used in the treatment of COVID-19, and arrested six persons in this connection, an official said.
Acting on a tip-off, the police in Morbi town arrested three persons for selling Remdesivir without prescription, Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Bhatia told reporters.
During the probe, the accused led the police to Ahmedabad, where the city crime branch sleuths raided a house in Juhapura and recovered 1,170 vials of Remdesivir and Rs 17 lakh cash and arrested two more men, the official said.
On questioning the duo, the police found that they had procured the injections from one Kaushal Vora, a resident of Surat, he said.
The city's crime branch traced Vora and co-accused Puneet Gunwant Shah to a farm house in a village in Olpad taluka of Surat district, Bhatia said.
"The police found a whole factory manufacturing fake injection set up at the farm house. The accused repackaged vials of glucose water and salt and labelled them as Remdesivir," the DGP said.PTI
The accused were planning to sell 60,000 vials of the fake injections, of which 5,000 were already sold, the official said, adding that the accused had initially charged Rs 2,500 for a vial, then increased the price to Rs 3,500 as the demand rose, he said.