<p>The Navi Mumbai police have arrested a man for allegedly cleaning and selling used medical gloves collected from hospitals amid the Covid-19 pandemic, an official said on Thursday.</p>.<p>Acting on a tip-off, the police on Monday evening conducted a raid in Pawne MIDC, where they found that used gloves collected from hospitals were being washed, dried and packaged to be sold in the market, the official said.</p>.<p>Liquid soaps and washing machines were used to clean used gloves, he said, adding that 4 lakh pairs of such disposable gloves worth Rs 6.10 lakh were seized from the premises.</p>.<p>The police have arrested Prashant Surve, a resident of CBD Belapur, under sections 420 (cheating), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infectious disease), among the other relevant sections of the IPC, the official said.</p>.<p>Further probe is underway to find the source of these gloves and where they were being sold, the official said. </p>
<p>The Navi Mumbai police have arrested a man for allegedly cleaning and selling used medical gloves collected from hospitals amid the Covid-19 pandemic, an official said on Thursday.</p>.<p>Acting on a tip-off, the police on Monday evening conducted a raid in Pawne MIDC, where they found that used gloves collected from hospitals were being washed, dried and packaged to be sold in the market, the official said.</p>.<p>Liquid soaps and washing machines were used to clean used gloves, he said, adding that 4 lakh pairs of such disposable gloves worth Rs 6.10 lakh were seized from the premises.</p>.<p>The police have arrested Prashant Surve, a resident of CBD Belapur, under sections 420 (cheating), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infectious disease), among the other relevant sections of the IPC, the official said.</p>.<p>Further probe is underway to find the source of these gloves and where they were being sold, the official said. </p>