Another enquiry committee was constituted by the Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) on Monday to replace the second enquiry committee to probe the contaminated medicine issue of the Pakistan Institute of Cardiology’s spurious medicnes, which had claimed lives of over 150 cardiac patients.
Punjab Investigations Additional IG Aslam Tarin will be the chairman of investigation team while Investigations DIG Ali Amir Malik, and Deputy Public Prosecutor Saeed would be the members. The new team would take briefing from former 3-member enquiry committee headed by Elite DIG Zulfiqar Cheema on Tuesday (today) about their investigations and findings.
The newly constituted team would further probe the issue of contaminated medicine in the light of inquiry report submitted to the IGP on Saturday by former inquiry committee and furnish its preliminary report before the Supreme Court of Pakistan on February 17.
It is worth mentioning here that enquiry committee headed by Zulfiqar Cheema and comprising SSP Zulfiqar Hameed and SSP Farooq Mazhar has recommended registration of an FIR under the offence of murder/attempt to murder and drug act against 10 officials of Efroze Pharmaceutical Company including its owner, two owners of distribution company named Umar Trading Company and five officials of PIC.
However, Shadman Police is yet to arrest the accused persons involved in this scam. Few officials including the owner of Efroze Pharmaare on interim bail and its hearing is scheduled to be held on Tuesday (today) but all other accused persons are at large.
