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Crime branch charge sheet 16 in spurious drug case
The Crime Branch, Jammu, has filed charge sheet against 16 accused, including Government Medical College, Jammu, former principal Dr Anees Chowdhary and former director health Dr Madhu Khullar in the spurious drug case.
The Crime Branch, Jammu, has filed charge sheet against 16 accused, including Government Medical College, Jammu, former principal Dr Anees Chowdhary and former director health Dr Madhu Khullar in the spurious drug case.
The case was referred to the crime branch by the commissioner/secretary to health and medical education department.
The crime branch during course of investigation had established that the accused -Ashok Kumar Raina, Amardeep Raina and Akhil Kumar Gadoo - have dishonestly and fraudulently prepared fake and fictitious documents, including partnership deeds/rent deeds of bogus firms. The accused managed to get the fake firm registered with the Government Medical College, Jammu, as a supplier firm, with fake documents which were made and obtained in connivance with other accused associated with some pharmaceutical companies located outside the state.
The charge sheet said the accused in conspiracy with members of the purchase committee 2, got the approval of rate contract for supply of Maximizin-625 mg tablets produced by Medley pharmaceuticals to the health department.
The drug was produced by Sanative Pharmaceuticals, Selequi, Dehradun, and supplied to the health department which was later found spurious.
The charge sheet was produced against Dr Anees Chowdhary, Sunil Gupta, Lotika Khajuria, Dr Madhu Khullar, Reva Gupta, Joginder Kumar, Ashok Kumar Raina, Amardeep Raina, Akhil Kumar Gadoo, Dr AK Sharma, Dr SC Khajuria, Prem Prakash Barnwal, Manjula Barnwal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, Rahul Kumar Singh, Mukesh Agarwal, Zubair Ahmad and Neraj Agarwal.
The CBI had filed a charge sheet in the court of special judge anti-corruption Jammu on June 20. It has approached the government for according sanction for prosecution against accused serving government officials.
