Sushant Ranjan

Patna, 8th May 2021: Economics Offence Unit (EOW) of Bihar Police have nabbed three persons for black marketing of Remdesivir injection in Kankarbagh area of Patna.

The arrested persons have been identified as Amit Kumar (24), Nitish Kumar (24) and Bhaskar Pathak (21), all residents of Kankarbagh.

Accused Nitish Kumar is working as Sales Officer at Mankind Pharma and Bhaskar Pathak is working as HR in a news web portal News 4 India.

Nayyar Hasnain Khan, ADG (EOU), said, “Three persons have been arrested for black marketing of three vials of Remdesivir. They were selling at an exorbitant price of Rs 40,000 for each vial. Two motorcycles with logos of NEWS 4 INDIA, many ATM and credit cards, mobiles have been seized. Further investigation is going on.”

All three were involved in black marketing of Remdesivir injection for the last few days. When information was received about them, the EOU team laid a trap to nab them on Saturday near Sai Temple.