Delhi High Court orders probe against Gautam Gambhir

Somya Kapoor

Former India opener and current BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has found himself in hot water after the Delhi High Court had ordered an investigation into three specific allegations against him and AAP MLAs Preeti Tomar and Praveen Kumar. 

The Court has directed the Drug Controller to hold an inquiry against him for illegally stocking the Covid-19 medicines and file a status report regarding the investigation within a week. 

The Delhi High Court though said that Gambhir’s intentions weren’t bad. “Mr Gautam Gambhir may have done this with the best of interests. Our issue is, is it a responsible behaviour when everything is in short supply? Should he not have realised it will become in short supply for others? Many others must have suffered on this account?” the court said.

“The way he (Gambhir) has gone about it, he has done a disservice. Ten other people would stand up and say we’ll also adopt modus operandi. This was not the way,” the court added.

The bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh examined the status report of Delhi Police which said that the former KKR captain had bought 2,628 strips of Fabiflu on the basis of a prescription from Dr Manish of Sanjay Garg Hospital.

Out of these, 2,343 strips were distributed to patients while the others were handed over to Delhi government's Director General of Health Services for distribution.

"The aspect which needs to be examined is how such a large quantity of Fabiflu was authorized to be purchased in retail as the medicine was in grave short supply at the relevant time. We can take judicial notice of this fact as we have been hearing this matter for a considerable time now.”

"It also needs examination as to how these medicines were distributed to several patients or attendants by Dr Manish of Sanjay Garg hospital," the bench said. 



 

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