Noida: Four men have been arrested for allegedly black-marketing Remdesivir injections and selling a vial for as high as Rs.1.5 lakh outside Greater Noida hospitals like GIMS, Kailash, Sharda and Yatharth.
Police said the accused would source the vials from a lab technician working with AIIMS in Delhi and a contractual employee at the chief medical officer’s (CMO) office in Noida, who are yet to be arrested. While two of the four accused are law students, another works with a pharmacy and the other is a physiotherapist.
The accused identified as Shubham Goyal, Vaibhav Sharma, Shivam Sharma and Yogendra Singh were arrested from near Kailash hospital in Greater Noida. Two 100mg vials of Hetero Remdesivir injections were recovered from their possession. A Honda Civic and Rs 49,600 in cash were also seized, police said.
Greater Noida: A 25-year-old “hardened criminal” died allegedly after falling from the third floor of his flat during a police raid in search of his brother-in-law, an accused in an attempt to murder case. However, the family of the deceased has accused the cops of pushing him to death.
Chand, the deceased, had 14 cases registered against him and was a co-accused in a murder case of a sub-inspector, Akhtar Khan, who was allegedly shot dead when police attempted to nab criminals on the run in April 2016. Chand was out on bail.
Around 1.15pm on Sunday, around seven policemen, including two female cops from the Beta II police station, entered the HIG flats society in Omicron I Sector in a green Innova and a white Scorpio, in which Chand’s brother Lukmaan was allegedly seated.
Greater Noida: Several farmers associated with BKU-Ambawata gathered at the office of the Greater Noida DCP and the district collectorate on Tuesday and claimed that an FIR lodged against them last week was based on false allegations by toll officials in Jewar. The also demanded that a counter-complaint they lodged against the officials be registered as an FIR.
More than 150 farmers were booked last week after they protested at the Jewar toll and did not allow collection for five minutes. They alleged that the toll officials weren’t allowing their cars to pass without paying toll.
While the toll officials had alleged that the farmers had hurled abuses at them, the latter had refuted all such claims. The farmers had said the toll officials were biased against their outfit and allowing only a few cars of their members to pass without paying toll.
GREATER NOIDA: Police stopped the redevelopment of a religious structure in Beerampur village of Gautam Buddh Nagar district after a clash between two communities.
Notices have been issued against 60 people under sections 107/116 of the CrPC and security has been upped to prevent any law and order issue.
According to locals, a structure came up at the plot where members of the Muslim community have been offering namaaz for some years now.
A few days ago, villagers noticed a group of villagers had started reconstruction work on the premises and they had been trying to construct a new Masjid at the spot.
GREATER NOIDA: Police have booked an unknown person after a six-month-old foetus of a girl child found
near a garbage dumping site in Greater Noida s Dankaur area on Sunday.
Some passerby spotted the foetus lying in the garbage in a vacant plot near a private hospital on Sunday morning.
While the management of the Krishna hospital has said the foetus was deliberately kept outside their hospital to malign its image, cops have started an inquiry into the case.
According to police, the foetus was found near a private hospital along Dhanori road.
The hospital staff spotted some dogs roaming around the foetus who were trying to scratch it.