<p>The Delhi Police on Thursday asked a court to grant five more days of custody of businessman Navneet Kalra to interrogate him for allegedly hoarding life-saving oxygen concentrators and selling them at inflated prices in black market. </p>.<p>The Crime Branch produced Kalra before Metropolitan Magistrate Akanksha Garg of Saket Court at the end of the three days of his police custody.</p>.<p>The accused has also filed bail application in the case, which will come up for hearing along with the application of police seeking his further remand.</p>.<p>During a recent raid, 524 oxygen concentrators were recovered from Khan Chacha, Town Hall, and Nege & Ju restaurants owned by Kalra.</p>.<p>The absconding restaurateur was nabbed from Gurugram on May 16 night and formally arrested the next day. </p>.<p>During the three-days custodial interrogation, the police took Kalra to the three upscale restaurants owned by him in Khan Market and Lodhi Colony.</p>.<p>He was also taken for the mandatory medical examination.</p>.<p>The police claimed that the concentrators were imported from China and were being sold at an exorbitant prices of Rs 50,000 to 70,000 a piece as against its cost of Rs 16,000 to Rs 22,000. </p>.<p>The concentrators are a crucial medical equipment used for Covid-19 patients and are on high demand amid the second wave of the pandemic.</p>.<p>On May 5, a case was registered against Kalra under Section 420 (cheating), 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, Essential Commodities Act and Epidemic Diseases Act. </p>.<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also registered a money laundering case against him. </p>
<p>The Delhi Police on Thursday asked a court to grant five more days of custody of businessman Navneet Kalra to interrogate him for allegedly hoarding life-saving oxygen concentrators and selling them at inflated prices in black market. </p>.<p>The Crime Branch produced Kalra before Metropolitan Magistrate Akanksha Garg of Saket Court at the end of the three days of his police custody.</p>.<p>The accused has also filed bail application in the case, which will come up for hearing along with the application of police seeking his further remand.</p>.<p>During a recent raid, 524 oxygen concentrators were recovered from Khan Chacha, Town Hall, and Nege & Ju restaurants owned by Kalra.</p>.<p>The absconding restaurateur was nabbed from Gurugram on May 16 night and formally arrested the next day. </p>.<p>During the three-days custodial interrogation, the police took Kalra to the three upscale restaurants owned by him in Khan Market and Lodhi Colony.</p>.<p>He was also taken for the mandatory medical examination.</p>.<p>The police claimed that the concentrators were imported from China and were being sold at an exorbitant prices of Rs 50,000 to 70,000 a piece as against its cost of Rs 16,000 to Rs 22,000. </p>.<p>The concentrators are a crucial medical equipment used for Covid-19 patients and are on high demand amid the second wave of the pandemic.</p>.<p>On May 5, a case was registered against Kalra under Section 420 (cheating), 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, Essential Commodities Act and Epidemic Diseases Act. </p>.<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also registered a money laundering case against him. </p>