Remdesivir racket: Four arrested
The Hindu
They are employees of the railway hospital
Railway Protection Force officials on Tuesday arrested four staff of the railway hospital for illegally selling Remdesvir. After they received information of the racket, a team of RPF officials approached one of the accused near Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna station and caught him in the act of handing over three vials of the antiviral drug. “The accused, an attender, offered to sell three vials for ₹1.5 lakh,” a senior officer said. The team also arrested three of his colleagues – a staff nurse, an ambulance driver and a housekeeping employee. “The accused procured vials meant for patients and started selling them to customers a fortnight ago. A patient requires at least six doses for complete recovery, but the nurse would ensure that they were given only three. The remaining were sold in black,” said the police officer.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.