Delhi Doctor, lab assistant arrested for black marketing remdesivir

New Delhi:  A 32-year-old doctor and a lab assistant were arrested on Thursday for allegedly black marketing remdesivir injections, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of the narcotics cell arrested the two suspects and recovered eight injections, an officer said.

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Those arrested have been identified as doctor, a resident of Sector-13 in Rohini, and lab assistant Nikhil Garg (22), a resident of Rajouri Garden, they said.

The doctor was apprehended from Barwala Chowk with his car. He was found in possession of three injections without any receipt or prescription slip, according to the officer.

During interrogation, the doctor disclosed that he procured the recovered remdesivir from Garg at Rs 35,000 per injection for further sale at Rs 45,000, he said.

Garg was apprehended with his scooter and five injections were recovered from him, police said.

He disclosed that the injections were procured from a person named Naveen from Rohini. A case has been registered and efforts are on to apprehend Naveen, police said.

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