Aurangabad, May 19:
The crime branch police on Wednesday busted yet
another racket of black marketing of the Remdesivir injections. The police arrested
two accused and seized four Remdesivir injections, car, two mobile phones and
Rs 31,500 cash from them.
The deceased have been identified as Nitin Avinash
Jadhav (28, Kohinoor Colony) and Gautam Devidas Angrak (Ragadiya Vihar). Jadhav’s
wife Aarti Dhole is a contractual nurse at the Government Medical College and
Hospital (GMCH).
The crime branch police received an information that
accused Angarak is selling the Remdesivir injection at Rs 25,000 per unit. Under
the guidance of ACP Ravindra Salokhe, PI Avinash Aghav, the police team
including API Manoj Shinde, drug inspector Jeevan Jadhav, constable Santosh
Sonawane, Chandrakant Gawali, Bhagwan Shilote, Ritesh Jadhav, Vishal Patil,
Anand Waluj, Dnyaneshwar Pawar and others laid a trap and sent a dummy customer
to Angarak. He told the customer that the injection can be obtained for Rs
25,000 and called him to Railway Station area. In the evening Angrak and Jadhav
came in a car on Hotel Vits to Railway Station Road. The police caught them
red-handed while giving injection to the customer. The police seized four Remdesivir
injections, car worth Rs 8 lakh, two mobile handsets and Rs 31,500 cash. A case
has been registered at the Vedantnagar police station on the complainant lodged
by drug inspector Jeevan Jadhav.
Accused Jadhav’s wife is a nurse in Covid ward at
the GMCH. During interrogation, Angarak told the police that the injections
were brought by Jadhav from his wife. The police has also included Aarti Jadhav
Dhole as accused in this case and she is likely to be arrested soon. The
sources said that Angarak has sold injections at Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Pune,
Nashik and other cities.