Gautam Gambhir has done disservice…they (stocking of COVID 19 medicines) are malpractices: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court made strong observations against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Member of Parliament Gautam Gambhir for stocking COVID 19 medicines and directed Drug Controller to conduct investigation into three specific allegations against Gambhir and AAP MLAs Preeti Tomar and Praveen Kumar for hoarding and illegally stocking COVID 19 medicines and drugs.

A division bench comprising Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh heard a plea seeking registration of FIRs against leaders of political parties indulging in hoarding and illegally distributing covid 19 medicines denying access to these medicines to the members of the public, who were desperately looking out for them.

Arguing against Gambhir’s act, Advocate Virag Gupta sought an investigation by the court, as according to him the act of Gautam Gambhir hoarding and giving medicines to people without setting up a medical camp, exhibits that there was a nexus between him, chemists and doctors.
On this Justice Sanghi observed, "Mr. Gautam Gambhir must have done it to genuinely help the needy people. Let us be clear about it. But the issue is, is that a responsible behaviour? Should he not have realised that Medicines are in shortage for others. When people were not getting medicines, should he not have thought about this? Many people would have suffered because of this. This was no way.
"He might have not done it with that intention but this is not to be done. The way he has gone about it, he has done a disservice. This wasn't the way certainly……Even with the best of intentions, they are malpractices. In our society, we can't permit this."