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Gautam Gambhir

Foundation accused

of hoarding drugs

he Drug Controller of Delhi on Thursday informed the Del-
hi High Court that Gautam Gambhir Foundation has com-
Tmitted an offence under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act for
hoarding unauthorized stock of COVID-19 drugs.
Advocate Nandita Rao, appearing for the Drug Controller ap-
prised a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh about
the inquiry report conducted by the Drug Controller and submit-
ted that Gautam Gambhir Foundation purchased over 2000 strips
by licensed dealers despite them not holding any valid license for A massive crowd of people throng the market after unlocking pro-
purchasing the same. She further added that the foundation was cess of COVID-19 lockdown in Bhopal on Thursday. (ANI)
found to have unauthorized stocking of Fabiflu under the Drugs
and Cosmetics Act, an offence under the same act.
The High Court sought from Drug Controller whether the sta- states and union territories. He also constantly changed his SIM
tus report is only in relation to Gautam Gambhir or does it relate cards in an effort to avoid arrest.
to AAP MLA Praveen Kumar, to which Rao responded, “Status A brawl among wrestlers was reported on May 4 in which some
report deals with Praveen Kumar MLA also. We have found him wrestlers were injured and later they had to be admitted to a hospi-
guilty.” tal. Sagar, one of the injured, died during the treatment.
After taking note of the inquiry report, the court observed that
certain offences committed both at the end of licensed dealers and amarinder singh
retailers of medicines as well as Gautam Gambhir Foundation and
The bench also asked Drug Controller to take action against Punjab CM inducts 2 rebel AAP
MLA Praveen Kumar.

people violating the rules mentioned under the Act, file another
status report, and listed the matter for July 29 for further hearing. MLAs in Congress
The court also noted that show-cause notices have been issued
to the licensee under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and responses mid the increased political activity within Punjab Congress,
are awaited. Bholath MLA and former Leader of Opposition Sukhpal
ASingh Khaira along with two rebel AAP MLAs Pirmal
Singh and Jagdev Singh Kamalu joined the party on Thursday.
sushil Kumar Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh inducted

Wrestler kept in separate three legislators--Khaira along with Bhadaur MLA Singh, and
Maur MLA Kamalu--into the party fold in a low-key event at his
residence before his visit to Delhi to meet the party’s three-mem-
cell at jail ber panel (constituted to resolve factionalism in Punjab Congress).
“Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh before leaving for Delhi
restler Sushil Kumar, who was arrested in connection today welcomed Sukhpal Singh Khaira, MLA and former Leader
with the murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankar at Chhatras- of Opposition and his two AAP MLA colleagues namely Jagdev
Wal Stadium, has been kept in a separate cell of Delhi’s Singh Kamalu, MLA Maur, and Pirmal Singh Dhaula, MLA Bha-
Mandoli jail due to security reasons, according to the sources. daur into the party fold,” tweeted Punjab Congress.
He has been kept in Mandoli’s jail number 15 and is not al- Former Leader of Opposition, Khaira, after quitting the Con-
lowed to meet anyone. Sources said that Kumar was served food as gress had joined the AAP in December 2015 and was elected from
per the jail manual on Wednesday night. The wrestler also did yoga the Bholath Assembly seat in 2017 on AAP ticket. He later re-
and exercise in the morning. signed from AAP in January 2019 and formed Punjabi Ekta Party.
A Delhi court on Wednesday remanded wrestler Sushil Kumar Meanwhile, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh along with Punjab
to judicial custody and rejected the plea by the Delhi Police seek- Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla reached Kapurthala House
ing an extension of his police custody in connection with the Chha- in Delhi, ahead of the expected meeting with the three-member
trasal Stadium brawl matter that led to the death of wrestler Sagar panel on Friday.
Dhankar. Earlier today, Congress leader Harish Rawat had informed that
The 38-year-old wrestler, a prime suspect in the Sagar Dankar’s Punjab Chief Minister will meet the party’s three-member panel
murder case, and his associate Ajay Bakkarwala were arrested by formed by Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi to resolve
a team of Delhi Police special cell on May 23 in the Mundka area factionalism in Punjab Congress on June 4.
of the national capital. A non-bailable warrant was issued against Rawat along with Mallikarjun Kharge and JP Aggarwal are
Kumar and others in the case. the member of the panel formed to resolve the widening differ-
According to the Police, Kumar had been on the run trying to ences between its leaders - Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot
evade his arrest. He had crossed the borders of as many as seven Singh Sidhu.
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