mumbai the game of oneupmanship between the mva government and the opposition over remdesivir supply reached its nadir late saturday when a director of a pharma company that had been approached by the bjp to provide the antiviral drug was picked up for questioning by the police and the leaders of the opposition in the legislature rushed to the bkc police station to rescue himin video clips that went viral on sunday devendra fadnavis leader of the opposition in the assembly was seen engaged in a heated conversation with the police over the detention of rajesh dokania a director of bruck pharma praveen darekar leader of the opposition in the legislative council also crossquestioned the policethe police said they were acting on intelligence that remdesivir stock was going to be illegally flown abroad but the bjp said the government was harassing dokania because his company had been approached by the party to supply remdesivir to the state to fight covid19maharashtra home minister dilip walse patil said he had ordered an inquiry into the happenings at the police station it was highly improper on the part of fadnavis and darekar to interfere in police administration the police were probing specific information the owner of bruck was called to the police station for more information nothings wrong with that he saidbjp mlc prasad lad who said he had asked the bruck manufacturing unit in daman diu to supply the injections a few days ago also accompanied fadnavis and darekar to the police stationwhile politicians from ruling parties made allegations of foul play and said there was a bar on procurement of the scarce drug by anyone other than the state government fadnavis said the pharmaceutical company had obtained all permissions and was providing the injections to the state and no one elsethe bjp is not purchasing the drug we are procuring it for maharashtra and the food and drugs administration has given approval for it if it were illegal why would the fda give the letter in fact two days ago darekar met the minister and said the fda should buy it we never asked permission for bjp to buy it fadnavis saiddokania had been questioned for over an hour and a half before fadnaviss arrival dcp zone viii manjunath singe was questioning dokania and officials from the food and drug administration too were presentdokania had been called for questioning from his kandivli home around 830pm he was allowed to return home around midnight after fadnavis darekar and lads confrontation with police officersa police officer said they had information that remdesivir stock was going to be sent abroad by air cargo despite a ban on its export the official said at least 60000 vials of remdesivir had been stored bruck pharma at different locations such as vile parle malad kandivli and some south mumbai locationsthe dcp and his team are probing the reason for the alleged stocking of 60000 vials at the exporters unit instead of it being distributed in the