CFSL refuses samples in Kumar Brothers case

CHANDIGARH: In a setback to UT police, central forensic science laboratory (CFSL)-36 has reportedly refused to accept the seized samples of medicines in the connection of a criminal case against owners of leading drug selling shop Kumar Brothers.
The Kumar Brothers owners Ashwani Kumar and Parmod Kumar were booked for allegedly supplying spurious medical products under the banner of Johnson & Johnson Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Company in PGI in November 2009.
Police sources said CFSL-36 authority refused to accept the samples expressing its inability to examine some spurious medicines which were used in the operation of Hernia aliment. Notably, the chargesheet against Kumar Brothers is pending for last two years in the absence of forensic examination of seized samples and earlier, cops were fixed when Johnson & Johnson Company had refused to provide the stranded samples of seized medicines to Chandigarh police. Inspector Amanjot Singh, crime branch in-charge, confirms the refusal of CFSL-36 authority and said,''After considering the case with some medical experts we have decided to send the covers of specific medicines for forensic examination in CFSL-36.'' He claimed if the covers of these medicines turns fake, it will automatically establish that medicines packed in these covers are fakes. The case against Kumar Brothers Chemist Pvt Ltd-11 hit the headlines when owners Ashwani and Parmod managed to escape before the police raid at Kumar Brothers shop and also procured anticipatory bail from the district courts-17. It may be recalled owner of Jindal Associates, a medical shop in sector 22, Navdeep Kumar, was also arrested on the same day when raid was conducted at Kumar Brothers chemist shop in sector 11.