Surat: A fake Remdesivir manufacturing unit had busted and 6 people were arrested for manufacturing duplicate Remdesivir in Pinjrat of Surat district on Saturday.
Gujarat police busted the manufacturing unit operating from a rented farmhouse and recovered 3,371 vials of duplicate injection, Rs 90.27 lakh in cash, and 63,168 empty vials.
The arrested were identified as, Rahul Kotecha, Raj Hirani (both residents of Morbi), Asif Patni and Ramiz Kadri from Ahmedabad, Kaushal Vora from Adajan-Surat, and Punit Shah from Thane near Mumbai in Maharashtra.
According to police, the accused filled the vials with glucose and salt mixed water before applying a sticker of Remdesivir injection to make it look original. They were doing this for the last 10 days and had distributed the fake product in different parts of the state through agents.
Police seized vials with stickers of Remdesivir applied on it and fake material inside, empty vials, its caps, sticker, glucose powder, salt, and a vial crimping tool.
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