Big catch! CCB cops unearth ‘fake Remdesivir’ racket in Mysuru
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Mysuru: Fear of Covid-19 pandemic has returned with the speedy spike in second wave and a gang of five which was making most of it has been busted.
In a big catch, especially when the medicines to get rid of the pandemic still remains a topic of hot debate, city crime branch police arrested a gang of five including a couple on the charges of preparing and selling fake remdesivir medicine.
Main accused Girish is employed at a prestigious hospital in the city as staff nurse and residing at Vidyanagar in Nazarbad. He was preparing fake Remdesivir at his house only.
He built a network of four members- two are medical representatives Prashanth and Manjunath. Shivappa a security guard at another private hospital and his wife Mangala a housekeeper at a private Covid Care Center.
Mangala and Shivappa were the key persons at ground level, who used to supply empty medicine bottles to Girish. Girish was buying common antibiotic
Ceftriaxone and saline water from medical shops and used to face the Covid medicine with empty bottles at his house. He had used Fevi-quik to seal the bottle and sold them through the conduit of medical reps at MRP rate of Rs 4000, while he spent measly Rs 100to per bottle. Ceftriaxone is in powder form and Saline is in liquid form.
He had sold around 900 bottles of fake drug during the peak of corona in its first stage, across Mysuru and Bengaluru.
Mysuru City Police Commissioner Dr Chandragupta told media persons “Girish had earned Rs 2.82 lakh ill-gotten money from selling the duplicate drug.”
Currently police have seized 32 ready mix bottles and stickers, caps and syringes.
Nazarbad police have booked a case against them under IPC sections 276 ,420 and 34, Drug and Cosmetics Act 1940 column 27 and the investigation is still on.
We need to investigate further and have also consulted the Drug Controller in this issue, commissioner said.
The CCB police who were keeping an eye on the possibilities of Covid drugs routed to black market, got a scent of fake drug racket, which helped in unravelling it.
DCP (Law and order) Dr A N Prakash Gowda, DCP ( crime and traffic) Geetha Prasanna, ACP C K Ashwathnarayana, Inspectors G Shekar, R Jagadish, VS Shashikumar and team busted the racket.
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