Delhi Police Give Clean Chit To Srinivas, Gambhir And Others, Tells HC 'No Proof Of Fraud'

The distribution/help has been voluntary and without discrimination, the Delhi Police told High Court.

New Delhi: The High Court of the national capital has been apprised by the Delhi Police that have found nothing on leaders like Congress' Srinivas & BJP MP Gautam Gambhir. in the alleged medicine hoarding case. 

They clarified that the leaders have been help to people in finding medical aid like medicines, oxygen, blood plasma and hospital bed.

The Delhi Police in its reply to the High Court said that the enquiry conducted so far has revealed that all the persons alleged to have been hoarding medicine etc have been actually helping people in getting medical aid in form of medicine, oxygen, plasma or hospital bed. Adding that the people who were enquired were not charged any money for the help provided, and thus no one has been defrauded.

The distribution/help has been voluntary and without discrimination.

Enquiry was conducted on BJP MP Gautam Gambhir, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Chaudhary Anil Kumar, Congress leader Mukesh Sharma, BJP leader Harish Khurana, AAP MLA Dilip Pandey, Congress leaders Ali Mehdi, Ashok Baghel and Srinivas.

The High Court ask the Delhi police to file a status report on a petition alleging medical mafia-politicians nexus indulging in black-marketing of COVID-19 medicines. The order came after a petition was filed by Deepak Singh through advocate Gaurav Pathak. Advocate Virag Gupta, appearing for the petitioner, urged Delhi HC to issue direction to register FIR and investigation into the medical mafia-politicians nexus by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to issue direction to detain persons indulging in black-marketing of COVID-19 medicines as per National Security Act, 1980 and to direct for disqualification of MPs and MLAs found to be hoarding and illegally distributing Covid-19 medicines.

According to the petition, "the country is going through the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic and the public is being made to run from pillar to post to avail critical medicines such as Remdesivir. At the same time, politicians of all political parties are able to gather huge stocks of the same, even as they do not have the required permissions under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and other specialized provisions for the same".

The Delhi Police in its interim status report filed in Delhi HC gives clean chit to political leaders in a petition alleging hoarding of medicine by them and has sought more time for enquiry as the probe is still going on.