Hepatitis Scam: SHC summons AG over offensive remarks

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A single bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui has summoned the advocate general to explain the derogatory remarks against court passed by manager of the hepatitis control programme.

Manager of the Hepatitis Control Programme, Abdul Khalique, filed an affidavit with objectionable remarks in a case filed by a local pharmaceutical company against the government of Sindh and two multinational companies alleging massive irregularities in purchase of Hepatitis medicine for poor patients.

The language of affidavit passed derogatory remarks against the interim order of the court restraining the provincial health authorities from purchase of medicine at inflated rates. It attempted to ridicule court orders by alleging that it was the court’s interim order which had put the life of patients in danger.

When the court asked the programme manager to explain as to whether he instructed the government counsel to draft such derogatory language in the affidavit, he responded in negative and the court required appearance of Sindh Advocate General Abdul Fateh Malik on July 14 to explain the position.