CUTTACK: Justice AS Naidu
Commission of Inquiry, which is probing the February 2012 liquor tragedy in
Cuttack and Khurda that claimed at least 40 lives, held its 19th hearing here
on Saturday. The commission recorded the statement of Assistant Drug Examiner
Kishore Chandra Rath as the first witness of the hearing.
Rath said that three Epee carm
medicine bottles were supplied to him as sample, but he didn’t find the
objectionable component methyl alcohol in the medicine. After the required test
he found that three components were there in the medicine in stead of six
components, Rath said, adding, “The Epee carm medicine was not the reason
behind the death of the people as methyl alcohol component was absent in the
medicine.”
Another witness police officer Gurudas
Kundu was not present during the hearing as he was out of the State. Suspended
Excise Sub-Inspector Mrityunjay Behera and Assistant Drug Controller Jyotirmay
Behera applied before the Commission for their re-appointment. The hearing of
November 17 would be held on November 24, commission secretary Kasinath
Panigrahy said.
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