CUTTACK: Justice AS Naidu
Commission of Inquiry, which is probing the February 2012 Cuttack-Khurda
districts liquor tragedy that claimed at least 40 lives, held its 17th hearing
here on Saturday. Commission recorded the statements of former State drug
controller Annada Shankar Das as the first witness of the hearing.
In his statement, Das said that
20 per cent or more alcohol concentration is permissible in the Epee carm
medicine manufactured by the Eastern Pharmaceuticals Ltd as it is so oily in
nature. He clarified that Epee carm could not be banned though it has high
concentration of alcohol of 42 per cent in the medicine.
“The Drug Controller said that
more than 20 per cent alcohol is a natural thing in the Epee carm medicine, but
the advocates said during the hearing that there is no provision of allowing
highly concentrated alcohol in the medicine. After the commission’s report that
will be come to fore that which is true,” said Commission’s Secretary Kasinath
Panigrahy.
The Commission would hold its
next seating at Bhubaneswar and
record the statement of the Police Commissionerate’s Zone-IV ACP Dillip Das.
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