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| Drug Scam: 2 weeks granted to Govt to decide on prosecution of officials | | Status of drug-policy adopted by Govt by Dec 2 sought | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Nov 13: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has granted government two more weeks to decide about the according sanction for the prosecution of persons against whom chargesheet has been presented after adequate evidence was found by Crime Branch during its investigation into much hyped spurious drug scam.
Division Bench of the court comprising Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir and Justice M H Attar granted two weeks time to state government to decide on prosecution of officials whose name have been enlisted in charge sheet filed by Crime Branch.
Earlier, Advocate General M I Qadri submitted that matter was pending for consideration before the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who also heads General Administration Department. In compliance to earlier directions, the government had informed the court that after receiving a report from committee constituted on 12-4-2013 which conducted departmental inquiry, charge sheet has been served on 25 officers.
According to the case registered by Crime Branch, the offences under Sections 274, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 12-B RPC have been established delinquent officials including Dr Madhu Khullar (then Director Health Services and Chairperson of the Purchase Committee-II), Lotika Khajuria (Deputy Drug Controller), Reva Gupta (the then Administrator Associated Hospitals) and Joginder Kumar. However, the Crime Branch could not file the charge-sheet against them and awaits sanctions for the prosecution from the government.
The court also directed government to file status report about the follow-up action after implementation of Drug Policy among other measures for controlling menace of spurious and adulterated drugs in Jammu and Kashmir.
The court granted time by next date of hearing on December 2 to Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) for submitting report about re-testing 156 samples drawn by it from Jammu and Kashmir. On the last date of hearing, the court had directed CDSCO that instead of sending the small number of samples to Kolkata and rest of the samples to Chandigarh laboratory, all the 156 samples be sent to both the laboratories.
Accordingly to the status report filed by the CDSCO, the samples have already been sent for testing but the test reports are awaited.
Earlier this year, a high level team of CDSCO from Jammu and Kashmir has sent 49 samples to CDL Kolkata while 107 were sent to RDTL Chandigarh for chemical analysis and CDL Kolkata of 49 declared 20 'not upto standard quality', RDTL Chandigarh evaluated 7 samples as 'not of standard quality.' |
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