A gang supplied at least 1,200 spurious Remdesivir injections, in Madhya Pradesh in the last one month. The inter-state gang supplying fake injections contained glucose water and salt, police said on Sunday.

These injections were sold as genuine Remdesivir, which is in high demand for treating COVID-19 patients. The fake Remdesivir injections were sold to needy people at exorbitant rates, a probe has revealed. The Gujarat Police recently busted this racket in Surat and arrested six persons, Indore's Vijay Nagar police station inspector Tahjib Kaji told PTI. "Investigation revealed that the gang with the help of one Sunil Mishra had supplied 1,200 fake Remdesivir injections in Madhya Pradesh in the last month," he said. Kaji said Kaushal Vora, who was among the six persons arrested in Gujarat, had delivered a consignment of 700 fake injections to Mishra in Indore. Mishra later went to Surat and brought a consignment of another 500 spurious injections, the police officer said. He said the Gujarat Police arrested Mishra in that state after the MP police passed on the information, while five accomplices of Mishra were arrested in Indore.

Police have seized seven such injections, manufactured in Gujarat, with the same batch numbers in Indore. The investigation is also underway at the local level.

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