The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday strongly objected to the alleged distribution of over 10,000 vials of remdesivir ...
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday strongly objected to the alleged distribution of over 10,000 vials of remdesivir by an Ahmednagar MP after buying it from Delhi. Noting that the antiviral injection is meant for needy coronavirus patients, the court said BJP leader Sujay Vikhe Patil’s action was wrong as this was “not a Robin Hood situation”, PTI reported.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sujay Vikhe Patil had procured and distributed 10,000 remdesivir injections, reportedly on April 19. Videos showing him unloading boxes of remdesivir from a chartered flight at the Shirdi airport went viral on April 24, after which four agriculturists sought criminal action against Vikhe Patil.
The court was told that 300 injections were handed over to the Ahmednagar district hospital while the rest, an undisclosed number, went to a trust in Shirdi. The court directed the district superintendent of police in Ahmednagar to trace the remdesivir boxes unloaded in Shirdi and submit a report by May 3, according to Live Law.
It also directed the state’s principal secretary (home) to provide details on the flights that landed and took off from the Shirdi airport between April 10 and April 25. “We would not tolerate any excuse of any [CCTV] footage being lost or...
