nashik during a surprise check on thursday a team of government authorities detected anomalies about the remdesivir at five medical stores in malegaon subdivisional officer of malegaon vijayanand sharma along with tehsildar chandrasingh rajput assistant police inspector sk patil of chhavni police station carried out the surprise visits where five medical stores were issued show cause noticewe found five shops that were either not keeping records of the patients to whom injections were sold or failed to explain why the injections were sold at higher rates than permitted said sharma the officer said one store had sold the injections at rs 4800 per unit when the price was rs 1200 printed on the box the medical store owner said he had sold it at rs 1200 but had generated the bill at higher price in another shop 120 vials were found instead of 40 as was told by the chemist on a social media group made to keep track of infections the chemist said the vials were received in the afternoon but the bill showed the delivery was on april 5in two others shops they failed to keep records of the hrct covid positive report or doctors prescriptionthe officer said there was a due procedure to issue a notice to these shopkeepers to explain the anomalies that were found by the administration we have asked them to explain the concerns raised in the stipulated time the failure would mean they violated the government norms and hence could face action we will also lodge criminal cases against those found to beguilty he saidcollector suraj mandhare said our officer carried out surprise visit in malegaon in the backdrop of shortage of the drug strict action will taken against those found violating the norms under the provisions of disaster management act