Delhi HC rejects drug controller's status report as 'trash' its on how BJP MP Gautam Gambhir got huge quantities of Fabiflu

The Delhi High Court also perused the status reports on inquiry conducted over allegations of procuring and hoarding medical oxygen made against AAP MLAs Priti Tomar and Praveen Kumar.

New Delhi: "You can't take us for a ride. If you think we are so gullible, so naive, we are not," the Delhi High Court told the drug controller on Monday for not properly examining how BJP MP Gautam Gambhir procured a huge quantity of COVID-19 drug Fabiflu and said people's tendency to appear as saviours have to be denounced. The high court said its confidence in the drug controller has "shaken completely" and rejected as "trash" its status report on inquiry into procurement of the medicine by the cricketer-turned-politician Gambhir. "There is a fundamental error of approach. The manner in which you have conducted the investigation is questionable," it said. The high court took strong exception to the drug controller's report, which concluded that the dealers had ample stock to supply to others, and said everyone knows that the medicine was in short supply and while Gambhir bought thousands of strips of the medicine, other people who needed it could not get it on that day.