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Govt letting off spurious drug perpetrators: DAK
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014
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Srinagar: President Doctors
Association Kashmir (DAK) Dr Nisar ul Hassan has said that it is
shocking that government is shielding spurious drug perpetrators.
According to a statement issued to KNS, Dr Hassan has
said: “We are anguished to know that crime branch in its supplementary charge
sheet has let off Lotika Khajuria the then deputy drug controller. Earlier she
was indicted as there was substantial evidence to prove her complicity in the
purchase and supply of spurious drugs for government hospitals .She along with
other members of purchase committee (PC) had deliberately overlooked the fake
and fraudulent tendering documents and had facilitated the commission of
crime.”
The DAK president has alleged that the government has
already given a clean chit to the then Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma whose
involvement in spurious drug scam is proved by a letter from Anees Choudry
wherein he mentions that Minister directed chairperson of PC to go ahead with
rate contract without checking the potency of the drug and credentials of the
firm.
“The members of verification board of Directorate of
Health services Kashmir under the administrative control of Director Dr Salem u
Rehman, who have deliberately overlooked the credentials of supplier /
manufacturer, have also been left out by investigating authority,” he added.
Dr Hassan has said that the DAK exposed the spurious
drug scam last year and since then hundreds of drugs have been declared
spurious/substandard killing children and adults. “Drug department is hand
in glove with spurious drug mafia and are in league with shoddy pharmaceutical
companies. The department has shown utter disregard to their duties by not
taking samples for analysis.”
He said that if this scandal had come to fore in any
other state, government would have been sued for inaction, but here victims are
disempowered Kashmiris and comfort level for government is secure.
“Kashmir is a den of spurious drugs and this deadly
business has political patronage. DAK demands independent inquiry in
spurious drug scam so that many heads will roll as the culprits are being
shielded by investigating authority. Fake drug scam is an unforgivable
commission of crime as precious human lives are lost and perpetrators should
face public trial.” (KNS)
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