Illegal sale of remdesivir detected in Dahod

Vadodara: A man working with a medical store in Dahod was arrested on Sunday for illegally selling remdesivir.
Police had received specific information that the store owner Kamlesh Rajpurohit had been selling the drug illegally for quite some time.
Dahod local crime branch (LCB) sent a decoy customer who contacted Rajpurohit and demanded remdesivir.He called the decoy near a restaurant next to Dahod railway station on Sunday. The cops then nabbed Rajpurohit and questioned him. “We have seized 11 remdesivir injections and Rs 75,000 cash from Rajpurohit,” the police said.
It is suspected that he used siphon the drugs from the medical store he worked and sold them for a high price to the needy. Over last few days, cops in Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Vapi and Surat too have arrested several men for selling the drug illegally.
The accused, who are either doctors or connected with medical fraternity, arrange for remdesivir injections by tampering the medical prescription. Some of them even siphon it from medical store and sell it off for exorbitant prices.