Cops summon two pharma firm officials for questioning

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 19

The UT police have summoned two officials of the Baddi-based pharmaceutical company for questioning regarding the case of illegal dealing in remdesivir, a Covid-19 treatment drug.

The operations cell of the UT police had arrested six persons, including Gaurav Chawla, director of the pharmaceutical company named Health Biotech Limited in Baddi, for illegally dealing in remdesivir.

The police had recovered 3,000 remdesivir vials from a pharmaceutical company.

SP (Operations) Ketan Bansal said two more persons of the pharmaceutical company had been summoned for questioning.

“We are also investigating the price on which the vials were being sold in the market in the country,” the SP added.

During the investigation, the police had found glaring irregularities in the physical verification of the stock, pointing towards diversion of the said medicine towards the local market after the ban on export by the government.