Fake Remdesivir injections
April 20, 2021
One arrested; Four including two medical representatives taken into custody; Accused sold 800-900 injections after filling it with cheap antibiotics, saline water
Mysore/Mysuru: The City Police have busted a fake
Remdesivir racket by arresting a staff nurse from a reputed hospital who used to source empty vials of the drug, fill them with cheap antibiotics or just saline solution and resell them to needy COVID-19 patients at exorbitant rates.
Many vials labelled as Remdesivir, which is used for the treatment of COVID-19, but actually filled with nothing but paracetamol in liquid form and saline solution, have been seized. Remdesivir is an experimental investigational drug that has been granted emergency authorisation to be administered to critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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Gold ornaments worth Rs. 31 lakh recovered, car seized
Mysore/Mysuru:
City Crime Branch (CCB) Police have arrested notorious house burglars and have recovered 611 grams gold ornaments worth Rs. 31 lakh besides seizing a car used for the crime.
The arrested are 54-year-old Fayaz Ahmed, a native of Saragur, now residing in Rajivnagar 2nd Stage and 43-year-old Imtiaz Ahmed, a resident of Bharath Nagar in city.
The arrests were made on Feb. 23 at about 6 am at Ring Road-Naidu Nagar junction. The Police also found various equipment used to commit house burglaries and a pistol-sized air gun in the car.
During interrogation, the accused are said to have told the Police that on Dec. 10 night, they had burgled a locked house at Subash Nagar and had decamped with 800 grams gold ornaments and Rs. 60,000 cash from the house.