These injections were allocated to two private hospitals in Pimpri Chinchwad town by the Pune administration.
PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Monday arrested three people, including a pharmacist attached to a private hospital and seized 21 vials of Remdesivir injection, which is used in the treatment of critically-ill Covid-19 patients.
"The suspects were trying to sell the injections in the black market for Rs 10,000 to 20,000," Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner Krishna Prakash said.
These injections were allocated to two private hospitals by the district administration.
"I have issued orders to summon the administrative heads of both the hospitals. We will question them about how the injections were being sold in the black market," the commissioner said.