Bengaluru: Three arrested for overcharging Remdesivir vials


Team Udayavani, May 26, 2021, 8:14 AM IST

Bengaluru: Three persons were arrested by the city police from Bengaluru for selling Remdesivir injections at an exorbitant price of Rs 10,000 per vial.

The police seized 25 vials of the drug from their possession.

“Three people were arrested yesterday (Tuesday, May 25), for selling Remdesivir for Rs 10,000 per vial in Bengaluru, that they had purchased at a lower price from Kerala. Twenty-five vials were seized from their possession,” DCP Bengaluru (West) said.

There are several reports of black marketing of the life-saving drug in the midst of a shortage of medicine in view of the second COVID-19 wave.

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