Actor Sonu Sood (File photo)
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Tuesday said it would hear actor Sonu Sood’s plea to intervene in a PIL where it was alleged that he hoarded and illegally distributed Remdesivir and Tocilizumab injections following requests on social media.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni, hearing a PIL on Covid-19 management, was told by his advocate Milan Desai that Sood seeks to be heard. “We’ll hear him on the next occasion,” said the CJ.
Sood’s application said after the second wave in April, there was a scramble for lifesaving medicines. “Therefore he decided to be a conduit between the two ie connecting the bona fide needy people with the places where the aforesaid drugs were available so that the latter can directly send the drugs to the needy patient,” his application stated. It added that it involved a two-stage process of requesting patients to submit documents such as Aadhar card, Covid report, doctor’s pre
I merely guided needy patients to where life-saving drugs were available: Sonu Sood tells Bombay HC | Mumbai News
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