Three Efroze Chemicals officials get protective bails
02 February, 2012
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) last Friday granted protective bails against Rs 50,000 each to three officials of the Efroze Chemical Industries (Pvt) Ltd - Managing Director Muhammad Abdullah Feroze, Deputy Managing Director Nadir Khan Feroze and Director Technical Khurram Munaf - in the spurious medicine case (FIR 47/2012) registered under section 322 of the Pakistan Penal Code on January 24 at the Shadman police station Lahore, our sources has learnt. A single bench of the SHC headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar granted the protective bails. The bail application was taken up by Justice Baqar at his chamber on urgent basis in view of lawyers boycott of court proceedings. They stated in the application that a few suspected spurious medicines, which caused deaths in a Lahore hospital, are attributed to their company. They further stated that their company had been manufacturing different kids of medicine with different support and collaboration. The medicine (Isotab) is being manufactured after its formula is transferred by a German company, Boehringer Mammheim GmbH, to Efroze Chemical Industries (Pvt) Ltd. They said before manufacturing, the medicine (Isotab) registration with the Drug Act was must. The registration was obtained after fulfilling requirements under the Drug Act 1976 and thereafter, approval to manufacture was accorded on July 26, 2008, they further stated. They claimed: "The aforementioned medicine has been approved to be very effective to the patients of blood pressure as it dilate blood vessels to ease the blood pressure." They prayed that the court might grant protective bails to the applicants for about two weeks so as to enable them to make preparation for appearing before the relevant court for getting confirmed bails. End.
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