Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 3: The much publicized spurious drugs scam case today took new turn with one of alleged accused namely Dr Anice Choudhary, the then Principal GMC Jammu filing an application before Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu seeking registration of case against the then SSP Crime Branch and the Investigating Officer for preparing incorrect record with the intention to save Yogesh Sharma and Lotika Khajuria from punishment.
Dr Choudhary has also alleged that SSP and IO have committed a grave offence of destruction of evidence by erasing the signatures of a member from the minutes of the meeting and suppressing the facts in the supplementary challan leading to exoneration of these two members of the Purchase Committee II.
After going through the application, Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu, Puneet Gupta directed CPO Crime Branch Jammu to file objections on January 22, 2014.
In the application, it has been submitted by former Principal of GMC that Yogesh Sharma, Accounts Officer who had replaced Joginder Sharma, the then Accounts Officer, GMC, Jammu after the technical and financial bids were cleared by the later, has been exonerated by the Crime Branch in the Supplementary Challan notwithstanding the fact that he was also a signatory to the minutes of the meeting held on June 15-16, 2012 regarding approval and issuance of the rate contract.
“Yogesh Sharma’s signatures have been erased by the Crime Branch from the minutes of the meeting to save him from criminal liability for malafide reasons and the mutilated minutes of the meeting being duly attested by the SSP, Crime Branch, have been annexed and marked to the Supplementary Challan filed by the Crime Branch to hoodwink the rule of law”, Dr Choudhary said.
“The Crime Branch has falsely implicated me despite my refusal to sign the minutes of meeting of the Purchase Committee-II, which is well borne by record”, Dr Choudhary said, adding “another member of the Purchase Committee-II, namely Lotika Khajuria, Deputy Controller Drug & Food Control Organization, Jammu whose name figured at Serial No 7 of the charge sheet No:-08/2013 dated 20-06-2013, has been dropped in the Supplementary Challan despite the fact that she had accepted the tender documents of the firm and approved the rate contract”.
She has been given the benefit under Section 169 Cr.PC, notwithstanding the fact that, she was very well present in the crucial meeting of the Purchase Committee-II and signed the minutes of the meeting wherein the decision taken by the committee on 07-05-2012 was also reflected, Dr Choudhary said.
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