The Local Crime Branch of Morbi busted an alleged racket selling fake remdesivir injections. Gujarat police detained six persons from Morbi, Ahmedabad and Surat on Saturday. Police seized more than 3000 vials of fake remdesivir injections of Rs 1.61 crore face value.

The accused detained in this racket have so far earned Rs 90.27 lakh cash by selling the fake drug which is used in treatment of Covid-19. Minister of state for home Pradeepsinh Jadeja said in a release that so far 23 cases of black-marketing of this injection had been lodged and 57 persons arrested. Morbi Superintendent of Police, Subodh Odedra said that a team of Morbi LCB took Rahul Lohana under hand who runs an antique articles shop in Morbi and his friend Raviraj Hirani on Friday. A tip-off was offered ove which actions where taken. The duo were cheating Covid-19 patients and their relatives by selling them fake Remdesivir injections. The state police seized 41 vials of fake remdesivir injections of Rs 1.96 lakh face value and Rs 2.15 lakh that, police said, the duo had earned by selling fake drug.

The SP further said that another LCB team went to Surat and found that Vora had hired a farmhouse in Pinjrat village in Olpad taluka of Surat district and was packing compound of glucose and table salt as remdesivir injection with the help of his partner Punit Shah of Thane in Mumbai. Police detained both and seized 160 fake Remdesivir injections.

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