PANIPAT (Satish Handa): Prime accuse of a racket identified as Md. Shehwar originally hailing from village Khudda in Muzaffar Nagar district in Western U.P was brought on production warrant presently lodged in Ropar jail in Punjab. He was produced in the court and remanded to police custody for a week. During police remand Md. Shehwar admitted sold over 10000 fake
‘Remdesiver’ injection used tor the treatment of Carona patients which were in fact ‘Piperpilin’ and Tajobactum’ injections for the treatment of fever due to cold and cough which he was procuring from a pharmaceuticals manufacturing firm at Kala Amb in Himachal Pradesh at the price Rs 22 each and selling at the price Rs 4000 each injection after affixing fake ‘Remdesiver’ stickers on it at Delhi, Panipat, Rewari, Chandigarh, Roorkee and several other places. He told that these injections were earlier used on few patients suffering from fever due to cold and cough and found cured them.
Inspector Anil Chiller of Crime Investigation Agency investigating the case told that the accused used to supply medicines at several medical stores along with his uncle and was well familiar with the markets and medicines and started preparing fake injections at his Chandigarh residence. He admitted sold about 4000 fake injections to a wholesale medicines supplier Pardeep at Panipat, 3000 injections at Rewari, 800 injections at Delhi, 500 injections at Chandigarh, more than 700 injections at Roorkee in Uttarkahnd, 1000 injections at Ropar in Punjab and also thrown 2000 injections in a canal when his companions were arrested by the police. Md. Shehwar admitted earned near Rs 4 crore in this illegal business playing with the life pf patients.
Inspector Chiller told media persons that police on a clue arrested a youth Gaurav Jain selling four fake ‘Remdesiver’ injections in sector 17 at Panipat who named a BAMS doctor Yogesh working at a dispensary on Barsat Road Panipat supplied him injections for which was paid Rs 2000 commission for each injection. Police arrested Dr Yogesh during preliminary interrogation admitted procured fake injections from Dilbagh resident of Sector 6 running wholesale medicine business on Khanna Road and purchased injections from Pardeep running a medical store in a private Hospital on Sanoli Road was was already arrested by the police.
