Surat: Investigation into the remdesivir black-marketing racket busted in Punagam on April 17 revealed that the mastermind, Vivek Dhameliya, had purchased 89 vials of the Covid-19 emergency medication from Surat’s New Civil Hospital (NCH) in four days.
Dhameliya (29), a homeopathic doctor and partner at Nitya Hospital, later sold the injections at higher prices, police said.
During the investigation, the crime branch found that Dhameliya had procured the injections legally after following procedures laid down by the state government. However, some of the injection stock that was not utilised at the hospital was sold on the black market. Dhameliya and the other accused charged different amounts from the buyers.
Police recovered 2.45 lakh in cash
Surat: Crime branch sleuths busted a racket of black marketing of remdesivir injection in Punagam area and recovered 12 vials of the life-saving drug on Saturday. Police also arrested six accused and recovered Rs 2.45 lakh in cash earned through sale of injections in the past few days.
One of the accused is a partner in a hospital in Yogi Chowk and owner of a medical store in the hospital. He used to sell the injections procured for patients admitted in the hospital. “The accused were selling each injection in Rs 12,000 to the buyer. Police laid a decoy trap and nabbed the accused,” said city police commissioner Ajay Tomar.
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RAJKOT: After Surat cops caught two garment traders earlier this month for turning into bootleggers to tide over their humongous losses owing to the pandemic-induced lockdown, an owner of a home appliances showroom in Surendranagar too was arrested on Thursday evening along with his son for similar offences under the Prohibition Act.
The father-son duo was caught selling Indian Made Foriegn Liquor (IMFL), which they claimed was to offset the losses they had incurred in their legit business and overcome the financial crisis. According to police, 95 liquor bottles worth Rs 47,500 and 134 beer bottles worth Rs 13,400 seized from the residence of Narendra Solanki (56) on bus stand road.
Garbage pile up on roads as AMC sanitation workers strike work
The workers, who are demanding the right of compassionate jobs to their kin, have declared that they will continue the sit-in outside the corporation’s north-west zone office on Monday from 9 am to 6 pm December 27, 2020 11:20:36 pm
They have been sitting on a dharna outside AMC’s Bodakdev zonal office while garbage was seen dumped on the road in city’s Vastrapur area Saturday.
UNPICKED GARBAGE continued to pile up along the roadside in several parts of the city as a strike by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) sanitation workers entered its fourth day Sunday.