Jabalpur VHP chief booked for selling over 1 lakh fake remdesivir injections, Congress demands CBI probe
3 years, 7 months ago

Jabalpur VHP chief booked for selling over 1 lakh fake remdesivir injections, Congress demands CBI probe

India Today  

Jabalpur Police has booked the Vishwa Hindu Parishad president of the outfit’s Narmada division along with two others in a fake remdesivir scam case in which over one lakh fake injections were sold to hapless people trying to save their loved ones during the pandemic. “The accused have been identified as Sarabjeet Singh Mockha, Devender Chaurasia and Swapan Jain, who have been booked under Sections 274, 275, 308 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code along with relevant sections of the Disaster Management Act and the Drugs and Cosmetics Act,” said Jabalpur Additional SP Rohit Kashwani. The Congress has meanwhile demanded a CBI enquiry into the fake remdesivir racket in which over one lakh such injections produced using salt and glucose were sold through a network of touts across the country. Gujarat Police had unearthed the scam earlier and arrested two people from a farm house near Surat where over one lakh fake remdesivir injections were allegedly made from salt and glucose.

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CBI nabs FSSAI officer accepting ₹1.2L bribe from pvt firm
7 months, 2 weeks ago

CBI nabs FSSAI officer accepting ₹1.2L bribe from pvt firm

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested four persons, including an assistant director with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India and three officials of a private firm which runs a laboratory in Thane, in connection with a bribery case. The accused were nabbed red-handed, transacting ₹1.2 lakh in cash at a bar on Sunday; the money was …

Gujarat: Trade of fake antibiotics busted in state-wide raids, several arrested | DETAILS
1 year, 2 months ago

Gujarat: Trade of fake antibiotics busted in state-wide raids, several arrested | DETAILS

India TV News  

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration has busted a trade of fake medicines being circulated to treat serious diseases and arrested several people in connection with the matter while also confiscating large quantities of fake medicines in raids across the state, according to the officials. Some of those arrested worked as medical representatives of 'benami' companies and used to …

Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Hospital Owners, Doctor In Fake COVID Vaccination Camp Case
1 year, 8 months ago

Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Hospital Owners, Doctor In Fake COVID Vaccination Camp Case

Live Law  

The Bombay Court on Wednesday granted bail to hospital owners and a doctor accused of giving fake COVID vaccines in various vaccination camps across Mumbai observing that the alleged fake vaccines did not cause death or any adverse effect to any patient. Justice Bharati Dangre, while granting bail to Dr. Shivraj Pataria and Neeta Pataria, owners of Shivam Hospital, Kandivali …

Assets of over Rs 1 crore of Gujarat men who sold fake Remdesivir attached by Enforcement Directorate
2 years, 9 months ago

Assets of over Rs 1 crore of Gujarat men who sold fake Remdesivir attached by Enforcement Directorate

India Today  

Assets worth over Rs 1 crore of two Gujarat men who allegedly sold fake Remdesivir - an anti-viral drug used in the treatment of Covid-19 - to patients during the second wave of the pandemic have been attached by the Enforcement Directorate, officials said. Gujarat residents Kaushal Mahendra Bhai Vora and Punit Gunvantlal Shah were accused of manufacturing and selling …

Supreme Court notice on plea challenging detention order against accused in fake Remdesivir case
2 years, 11 months ago

Supreme Court notice on plea challenging detention order against accused in fake Remdesivir case

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on January 3 sought response from the Centre and Madhya Pradesh Government on a plea challenging the order for detention of a Jabalpur man accused of procuring fake Remdesivir injections during the second wave of COVID-19. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna issued notices to the secretaries of Union Ministry of Home Affairs and Home Department of the State …

Fake Remdesivir case: SC issues notices to Centre, Madhya Pradesh government
2 years, 11 months ago

Fake Remdesivir case: SC issues notices to Centre, Madhya Pradesh government

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and Madhya Pradesh government seeking response from them on a plea challenging the order for detention of a Jabalpur man accused of procuring fake Remdesivir injections during the second wave of COVID-19. A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna issued notices to the secretaries of the …

Karnataka High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Medical Representative Accused Of Black Marketing Remdesivir During Covid-19
3 years ago

Karnataka High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Medical Representative Accused Of Black Marketing Remdesivir During Covid-19

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed an application for anticipatory bail filed by a Medical Representative who is charged for black marketing of remdesivir injections during the second wave of Covid-19 in the month of May. As per the complaint, on May 6 the police sub-inspector registered a suo-motu case alleging that he received credible information about selling Remdesivir injections …

MP Man Involved in Fake Remdesivir Racket Arrested, Had Sold Injections for Rs 1.8 Lakh
3 years, 5 months ago

MP Man Involved in Fake Remdesivir Racket Arrested, Had Sold Injections for Rs 1.8 Lakh

News 18  

With the arrest of one more accused in the fake Remdesivir case in Madhya Pradesh, the total number of those under custody has reached 11. In this case, the director of City Hospital, Sarabjit Singh Mokha, his wife Jasmeet Mukh, hospital manager Sonia Khatri, pharmaceutical manager Karmi Devesh Chaurasia, and his son Harkaran Mokha have been arrested. Others who were …

No CBI Probe, For Now: Calcutta High Court Refuses to Interfere in Fake Vaccine Case
3 years, 5 months ago

No CBI Probe, For Now: Calcutta High Court Refuses to Interfere in Fake Vaccine Case

News 18  

The Calcutta High Court on Friday disposed of a string of Public Interest Litigations seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into a fake Covid vaccine scam in West Bengal, refusing to interfere in the matter at this stage. Hundreds of people, including actor and Lok Sabha lawmaker from the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, Mimi Chakraborty, were allegedly …

Mumbai vaccination scam: Police registers 9th FIR in Samta Nagar fake vaccine case
3 years, 5 months ago

Mumbai vaccination scam: Police registers 9th FIR in Samta Nagar fake vaccine case

India Today  

The Samta Nagar Police in Mumbai has registered an FIR against two doctors and their two students for allegedly setting up a vaccination camp in Kandivali East without the permission of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The FIR was registered against Dr Manish Tripathi, his two students and another doctor at Samta Nagar Police Station. The Mumbai Police has formed a …

Kolkata fake jab scam: Off-site vaccination camps halted, SOP to be issued
3 years, 5 months ago

Kolkata fake jab scam: Off-site vaccination camps halted, SOP to be issued

India Today  

All Covid-19 vaccinated centres apart from those in private and government hospitals have been suspended for the time being after the face vaccine same shook the state recently. Kolkata Police said, "Accused Debanjan who organised fake vaccine camps, wrote letters to govt agencies, would put receipt stamps on them to convince victims. Read: Cops summon 10 more in Kolkata vaccination …

Kolkata fake vaccination camps: Suvendu Adhikari writes to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for central probe
3 years, 5 months ago

Kolkata fake vaccination camps: Suvendu Adhikari writes to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for central probe

India Today  

BJP MLA and leader of opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has written to Union Health Ministry, demanding a probe by central agencies into a fake vaccination drive conducted in Kolkata by a man who allegedly posed as an IAS officer. Adhikari claimed that Debanjan Deb, the main accused, held illegal vaccination camps in Kasba, Amherst Street and Sonarpur …

Kolkata vaccine scam: BJP demands CBI inquiry in fake vaccination drive
3 years, 5 months ago

Kolkata vaccine scam: BJP demands CBI inquiry in fake vaccination drive

India TV News  

Kolkata vaccine scam: Amid row over fake vaccination camp being conducted in Kolkata by fraudster Debanjan Deb, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the alleged vaccine scam. We also want the Centre to look into it," news agency ANI quoted BJP's General Secretary Sayantan Basu, as saying. The fake vaccine drive mastermind …

Noida Police nabs Haryana man in remdesivir black marketing case
3 years, 6 months ago

Noida Police nabs Haryana man in remdesivir black marketing case

Hindustan Times  

The Noida Police on Thursday said it has arrested a Haryana resident who was allegedly involved in black marketing of remdesivir during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was not yet clear whether the remdesivir vials they sold to the needy people at exorbitant rates were all genuine or fake. After the remdesivir black marketing episode came into …

Over 3,000 vials of fake COVID injections recovered in big crackdown by Delhi Police; 2 doctors arrested
3 years, 6 months ago

Over 3,000 vials of fake COVID injections recovered in big crackdown by Delhi Police; 2 doctors arrested

India TV News  

In a major crackdown, over 3,000 vials of fake life-saving injections used in treatment for COVID-19 patients were recovered by the Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday. Meanwhile, Mayank Taluja also came there to collect the payment for 10 vials of Liposomal Amphotericin-B injections, who was also apprehended. After being interrogated, the owner of the store revealed that one Shivam …

Mumbai vaccination fraud: No permission was taken from BMC, jabs procured from unauthorised source, say police
3 years, 6 months ago

Mumbai vaccination fraud: No permission was taken from BMC, jabs procured from unauthorised source, say police

India Today  

The Mumbai Police on Friday arrested four people for allegedly cheating residents of a housing society in suburban Kandivali after they expressed apprehensions that the vaccine that was administered was spurious. Speaking to the media on Friday, Dilip Sawant, Additional Police Commissioner confirmed that organisers of the vaccination drive did not take the required permissions from the BMC for a …

Remdesivir Was Distributed From BJP Office To "Save Lives": Gujarat MLA To High Court
3 years, 6 months ago

Remdesivir Was Distributed From BJP Office To "Save Lives": Gujarat MLA To High Court

Live Law  

A BJP MLA has told the Gujarat High Court Remdesivir vials were made available to needy patients from the party office in Surat on grounds of "compassion and humanity" to "save a number of lives" as he defended himself against charges of hoarding and illegally distributing the antiviral drug at the height of the second wave of COVID-19 in April.The …

Opinion | Merchants of death: Selling fake Remdesivir vials
3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion | Merchants of death: Selling fake Remdesivir vials

India TV News  

Today I want to speak about a gang of unscrupulous traders based in Surat and Indore, who sold several thousand fake Remdesivir injections to relatives of critical Covid-19 patients when the second wave of pandemic was at its peak last month. Indore Police officials said, the gang had planned to make nearly one lakh fake Remdesivir vials ready to be …

Remdesivir scam accused planned to make 80,000 fake injections: Indore Police
3 years, 6 months ago

Remdesivir scam accused planned to make 80,000 fake injections: Indore Police

India TV News  

Indore Police investigations has revealed that the accused in the fake Remdesivir scam case planned to make and sell 80,000 counterfiet units of the injection. Two patients in Indore died after being administered with the fake remdesivir injections, which comprised glucose salt water. Four accused in the scam who were arrested Gujarat Police and brought in for questioning on Indore …

Remdesivir scam accused planned to make 80K fake injections, says Indore Police
3 years, 6 months ago

Remdesivir scam accused planned to make 80K fake injections, says Indore Police

Hindustan Times  

Indore Police investigations has revealed that the accused in the fake Remdesivir scam case planned to make and sell 80,000 counterfeit units of the injection. Two patients in Indore died after being administered with the fake remdesivir injections, which comprised glucose salt water. Four accused in the scam who were arrested Gujarat Police and brought in for questioning on Indore …

Bengaluru police arrests three doctors for illegally selling vaccines, drugs
3 years, 7 months ago

Bengaluru police arrests three doctors for illegally selling vaccines, drugs

Op India  

The Bengaluru police have arrested a doctor working at BBMP health centre in Bengaluru for illegally administering vaccine outside designated Covid-19 vaccine centres. According to the reports, a 25-year-old contract doctor Dr Pushpita, who was attached with the Manjunathanagar Primary Health Centre by the BBMP, has been arrested for alleged black marketing Covid-19 vaccines. Doctors caught selling fake Covid-19 certificates, …

Fake remdesivir scam: Indore police summons driver of MP minister's wife
3 years, 7 months ago

Fake remdesivir scam: Indore police summons driver of MP minister's wife

India Today  

The Indore police has summoned the driver of Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister Tulsi Silawat’s wife in connection with the investigation into the fake remdesivir scam case. According to the Indore police, the main accused Puneet Aggarwal, who was caught selling fake remdisivir injections, had revealed during investigation that he acquired some remdesivir injections from Govind, who works as driver for …

Approach Police First : Bombay High Court To Petitioners Seeking FIR Against BJP MP Sujay Vikhe Patil For Alleged Remdesivir Procurement
3 years, 7 months ago

Approach Police First : Bombay High Court To Petitioners Seeking FIR Against BJP MP Sujay Vikhe Patil For Alleged Remdesivir Procurement

Live Law  

"We find it pragmatic not to rush to any conclusions or become judgmental in view of the time-space in filing the first complaint and lodging of this writ petition", the court observed. Four agriculturists, former politicians, had filed a plea in the Bombay High Court against Patil for the alleged unauthorised procurement and distribution of Remdesivir injections. Sujay Vikhe Patil …

7 arrested for running fake Remdesivir injection factory in Uttarakhand, already sold 2,000 injections
3 years, 7 months ago

7 arrested for running fake Remdesivir injection factory in Uttarakhand, already sold 2,000 injections

India Today  

Seven people were arrested for running a fake Remdesivir injection manufacturing unit in Kotdwar in Uttarakhand. Police also recovered 196 fake "ready to sell fake Remdesivir injections" and 3,000 empty vials from the spot. Moreover, police found the accused have already sold 2,000 fake Remdesivir injections. Accused further disclosed that he already sold 2,000 fake Remdesivir injections to desperate people," …

Bombay High Court Directs Police To Trace Out Remdesivir Boxes Unloaded By BJP MP Sujay Vikhe Patil
3 years, 7 months ago

Bombay High Court Directs Police To Trace Out Remdesivir Boxes Unloaded By BJP MP Sujay Vikhe Patil

Live Law  

On Thursday, the Bombay High Court took strong exception to a press conference held by the Ahmednagar District Collector to support BJP MP Dr.Sujay Vikhe Patil in relation to his alleged unauthorized procurement and distribution of Remdesivir drug. The bench then directed the District Superintendent of Police, Ahmednagar, to trace out the boxes containing Remdesivir injections unloaded by the MP …

Direct FIR Against BJP MP Sujay Patil For Unauthorized Procurement And Distribution Of Remdesivir – Plea In Bombay High Court
3 years, 7 months ago

Direct FIR Against BJP MP Sujay Patil For Unauthorized Procurement And Distribution Of Remdesivir – Plea In Bombay High Court

Live Law  

Four agriculturists have filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against Dr Sujay Vikhe Patil, BJP Member of Parliament from the Ahmednagar constituency for the alleged unauthorized procurement and distribution of 10, 000 Remdesivir injections. The plea states that local authorities didn't even make an attempt to verify how many injections were procured by Dr. Vikhe Patil from his …

Identify fake Remdesivir through IPS officer Monika Bhardwaj's 9-point tutorial
3 years, 7 months ago

Identify fake Remdesivir through IPS officer Monika Bhardwaj's 9-point tutorial

India Today  

The Delhi Police arrested at least four persons for alleged black marketing of Remdesivir, an injection prescribed for Covid-19 patients with severe illness. Now, IPS officer Monika Bhardwaj, DCP of the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police, has posted tweets “for educational purposes” detailing how to differentiate genuine Remdesivir from a fake vial. Monika Bhardwaj points out nine 'errors' present …

Gujarat High Court Issues Notices Over BJP's Remdesivir Distribution Drive
3 years, 8 months ago

Gujarat High Court Issues Notices Over BJP's Remdesivir Distribution Drive

Live Law  

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued notices to state BJP president CR Paatil and the Vijay Rupani government in connection with the procurement and distribution of Remdesivir, a key anti-viral drug used in COVID-19 treatment, from the party's Surat office.The state BJP's free Remdesivir distribution drive of 5,000 vials started from its Surat office from April 10.Admitting a petition. …

Maha FDA minister confirms BJP’s Remdesivir procurement was approved
3 years, 8 months ago

Maha FDA minister confirms BJP’s Remdesivir procurement was approved

Op India  

Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration Minister and NCP leader Dr. Rajendra Shingne’s admission has put all conspiracy theories triggered by his own government and the alliance leaders to rest. The entire process was done following all rules, with due permissions and with with genuine intentions to help the citizens.” – FDA Cabinet Minister Dr. @DrShingnespeaks ji pic.twitter.com/cI260gWi6d — Siddharth Shirole …

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