| Court extended remand of three accused in Spurious Drug Scam upto May 4, 2013 | | | Jammu: Forest Magistrate (Duty Magistrate) Jammu Mr. Adnan Sayed today extended remand of Ashok Kumar Raina, Amardeep Raina and Akhil Gadoo upto May 4, 2013.
Meanwhile Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu Mr. Puneet Gupta after hearing Adv Sameer Pandita appearing for the accused persons in bail application directed Crime Branch to file report on or before May 2, 2013 and also filed objections.
It is worthwhile to mention that Crime Branch, Jammu has registered a case FIR No. 10/2013 u/s 274,420,465,467,468,471,120-B RPC r/w Section 5(2) P.C.Act Svt.2006 and Section 27 of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 against Proprietors of M/s Life Line Pharmaco Surgicals,130/4 Dream City, Muthi, Jammu and members of the purchase Committee-II of Health and Medical Education Deptt. J&K, Jammu with regard to supply/purchase of spurious drugs.
Brief facts of the case are that a report on inquiry into the lapses leading to purchase of spurious drugs, submitted by the committee constituted by the Govt., revealed that M/s Life Line Pharmaco Surgicals,130/4 Dream City, Muthi, Jammu through its proprietors participated in the tender process flouted by the Govt., for the supply of drugs `Amoxicillin Trihydrate IP` equivalent to Amoxicillin 500 mg and `Potassium Clavulanate Diluted IP` equivalent to Clavulanate Acid 125 mg, by quoting the rate for 10X10 tablets @ Rs. 428.40 Paisa for the said drug manufactured by M/s Medley Pharmaceuticals Ltd. They also produced an authorization certificate purportedly issued by M/s Medley Pharmaceuticals Ltd. to this effect. The rate quoted by M/s Life Line Pharmaco Surgicals was found the lowest by the purchase committee-II and accordingly the rates were approved and supply orders were placed by the indenting officers for supply of 2,65,000 tablets. The same were supplied by the supplier alongwith an inhouse testing/analytical report purportedly generated by M/s AFFY Parenterals, showing quantity of drugs manufactured under Batch No. BPT 1583 as 2,50,000 whereas the drugs supplied under the same Batch were 2,65,000. During the course of enquiry, it came to fore that M/s Medley Pharmaceuticals Ltd. had not issued any authorization to M/s Life Line Pharmaco Surgicals and that Proprietors of M/s Life Line Pharmaco Surgicals had entered into the tendering process/supply of drugs by producing fake and fabricated authorization certificate/reports of the original manufacturer without any legal authorization and supplied spurious drugs in connivance with the officers/officials of the Purchase Committee-II, constituted by the Govt. who without verifying the tender documents and credentials of the supplier approved the rate contract by abusing their official position thereby causing wrongful gain to the suppliers and huge wrongful loss to the public exchequer. JNF |
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