HP factory owner nabbed in fake Remdesivir scam

Ambala, May 24

The police have held a Himachal-based factory owner in connection with the fake Remdesivir injections recovered in Ambala last month.

The accused, Dalpreet, runs a pharmaceutical factory in Nalagarh in HP.

On April 21, cops, on curfew duty, stopped two vehicles and while checking, they recovered 24 injections of ‘Hetero Remdesivir’ from a cars. Later, the Remdesivir injections were found fake.

Ambala Cantonment Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ram Kumar said: “Following the seizure of injections, a probe was started by the CIA-1. Later, 399 more injections were seized and 11 persons have been arrested so far. We suspect that 399 injections seized later are also fake as there were no labels on them.”

Dalpreet, however, claimed he had nothing to do with the injections.