"Can't Be Robinhood Situation": Bombay High Court On BJP MP Procuring Remdesivir

The court said while the action of BJP's Sujay Vikhe Patil, MP from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, might have saved the lives of poor and needy patients, the path he chose was wrong.

The Bombay High Court today raised objection over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Sujay Vikhe Patil allegedly procuring Remdesivir from New Delhi surreptitiously and unofficially and noted that the anti-COVID-19 drug is supposed to be distributed equally among needy patients. The Aurangabad bench of the court said while the action of Vikhe Patil, the MP from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, might have saved the lives of poor and needy patients, the path he chose was wrong and "this cannot be a Robinhood situation". The court said the entire issue needs to be investigated but it was refraining from doing so at this stage though it pulled up the Ahmednagar district collector for "giving a clean chit" to the Member of Parliament. "A wrong path followed is ultimately termed as impropriety. Remdesivir injections are supposed to be used and distributed equally among all and not like this," said a division bench headed by Justice Ravindra Ghuge.