Accused pushed glucose shot instead of remdesivir: Rajasthan Police | Jaipur News

The call details of the two accused are being investigated and if required call recordings of a few mobile numbers are also likely to be sought for investigation, ASI at Mahavir Nagar police station and investigating officer (IO) of the case Vishnu Kumar Pankaj said (Representative image)

KOTA: One of the two arrested for stealing and black marketing of remdesivir has admitted to giving glucose injections to two Covid patients undergoing treatment in Kota Heart Hospital, police said on Tuesday.
While one of the Covid patients identified as Maya died on Saturday, the other identified as Ratanlal Dhakad was still struggling for his life.
In a decoy operation carried out by DST in-charge Neeraj Gupta under close supervision of New Medical College principal Vijay Sardana, two brothers identified as Manoj Regar, a nursing staff at Kota Heart Hospital, and Rakesh Regar, a private lab technician, were held last week for allegedly black marketing two remdesivir injections for Rs 10,000 each outside New Medical College Hospital (NMCH).
During interrogation, Manoj Regar admitted that he had stolen two remdesivir injections belonging to Covid patients Ratan Lal and Maya undergoing treatment in the Covid ward and instead of the life saving injection, he administered glucose injections to each of them, ASI at Mahavir Nagar police station and investigating officer (IO) of the case Vishnu Kumar Pankaj said.
The call details of the two accused are being investigated and if required call recordings of a few mobile numbers are also likely to be sought for investigation, he said.
Manoj Regar was produced before court on Tuesday after completion of his police remand and the court ordered to send him to jail under judicial custody till June 1 while Rakesh Regar is already undergoing judicial custody in jail till May 30, the IO said.
The brothers are residents of Nimoda village in Bundi district, he said, adding Manoj worked as a nursing staff in Kota Heart hospital while his brother Rakesh worked as lab assistant at a lab near the hospital. The accused were held from outside NMCH on Saturday for allegedly selling two remdesivir injections for Rs 10,000 each, he said.