Three arrested for black marketing Remdesivir, oxygen cylinders
By News Desk| Published: 30th April 2021 7:14 am IST
Hyderabad: Three persons were arrested in two separate cases for black marketing oxygen cylinders and the Remdesivir drug here by the city police. The cops sezied as many as 19 cylinders from a man after the bust, for selling oxygen to desperate patients at higher prices, given the ongoing surge in demand owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic’s second wave.
The the first case, officials of the commissioner’s task force arrested one B. Srihari, the owner of a pharmaceutical shop for selling the Remdesivir drug at higher prices. Srihari was being supplied with the drug by another accused named Vinay, who is currently absconding. The former was arrested by the police on April 28 at Kachiguda, when he was about to deliver four vials of the drug to a customer. All the vials were seized from his possession.