‘Life Pharma proprietors are involed in drug scam’Sham says ‘no comments’ to various quesions

Srinagar, April 19,: Bailing out his Chief Polling Agent, former Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma Friday the proprietors of Life Line Pharma Surgical responsible for supplying fake drugs in hospitals. Claiming that Doctors Association of Kashmir has no registration, Sharma said that a particular newspaper is busy in spewing venom against him. “It is a sheer frustration on part of people in Kashmir that they are raising hue and cry over the spurious drugs while the fact is that these drugs were supplied to Jammu based hospitals as well,” Sharma told reports during a press conference in Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.Though Sham Lal Sharma avoided most of the questions, however he claimed that he has no role in spurious drug scam. “Fake drugs were supplied by Life Line pharma Surgical 130/4 Dream City, Mutthi, Jammu under license number JK-7962-63. Its proprietors, Akhil Guddo son of I.K.Gudoo resident of 109 Tamal Colony, Bohri Talab Tillo Jammu and Amardeep Raina son of B.N.Raina 436A Vinayek Nagar Sector 2 Mutthi, Jammu are directly responsible for supplying fake drugs to state hospitals,” Sharma said and refused to answer when he was asked despite knowing this why he didn’t lodge FIR against these proprietors.He said it is baseless that these drugs were supplied to Kashmir based hospitals only. “A particular Daily is misleading people and leaves no stone unturned in holding me responsible for all this. We supplied two lakh capsules to Kashmir based hospitals but we also supplied seventy thousand such capsules in Jammu as well,” Sharma said and refused to answer when he was asked why there was no uproar in Jammu over the spurious drug scam.Sham Lal Sharma said that his chief polling agent, Ashok Sharma has no role in this scam. “Enquiry committee has already been constituted and we are waiting for the report of the committee. It is not Ashok Sharma but the proprietors of Life Pharma who are involved in this scam,” he said.He claimed that Doctors Association of Kashmir has no registration. However when he was asked why did he not take any action against the DAK when he was Health Minister, Sharma didn’t reply.When Sharma was asked that it is not the DAK only but the people of Kashmir and Civil Society is demanding action against him and demanding his immediate arrest, the former Health Minister did not respond to the query.Sharma termed the allegations baseless that he had issued drug licenses to every Tom Dick and Harry. “I issued some 4,000 drug licenses only. It is absolutely wrong that as a Health Minister I issued more than 10,000 drug licenses,” he said and added that for verification of drugs he had assigned the job to professionals.