The Crime Branch of Pune City Police has arrested five people in two different cases for black marketing of anti-viral drug Remdesivir used in COVID-19 treatment.

"During patrolling crime branch officials had received information about a person selling Remdesivir in Rs 18,000 per injection. Accordingly a trap was set and the team of police officials arrested him. With his arrest, involvement of three of his more associates including a driver who was working on a vehicle transporting medicines to civil hospitals was revealed," the police said.