Hyderabad: Seven persons arrested for selling Remdesivir illegally

Hyderabad: Rachakonda police arrested seven persons for indulging in illegal sale of Remdesivir and seized eight vials of the injection from their possession.
Kushaiguda police raided a house near Raja Wines, Kapra on Thursday night and arrested V Nagender, 36, a pharmacist from Dammaiguda, P Sai Kiran, 28, a driver of a hospital from Kapra, G Babu Reddy, 26, a driver from Jawahar Nagar and seized five Remdesivir vials from their possession.Based on their confession, police arrested Srikanth, a pharmacist at a hospital in ECIL, who provided them the vials. “The accused were planning to sell each Remdesivir vial for Rs 35,000 to customers,” police said.
In another case, Rachakonda SOT sleuths along with Medipally police arrested three persons, B Ramachander, 40, a lab technician from Warasiguda, K Karthik, 31, a private employee from Peerzadiguda and A Sreenaiah, 41, a medical shop owner from Boduppal.
According to police, Karthik has been supplying masks and sanitisers to Sreenaiah’s medical shop and the latter asked him for Remdesivir injection. Karthik contacted Ramachander and he agreed to supply three vials for Rs 25,000 each.
When Ramachander and Karthik gave three Remdesivir vials to Sreenaiah, police arrested them. Sreenaiah was planning to sell each vial for Rs 35,000 to Covid-19 patients, police said.