SHC seeks report from AG

Karachi
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed the Advocate General to submit an inquiry report against the official who had drafted the provincial hepatitis control programme manager’s counter affidavit containing contemptuous remarks, filed on a lawsuit pertaining to tender proceedings of a pharmaceutical firm for Hepatitis B and C vaccines.
The court had taken notice of the contemptuous remarks made by the provincial hepatitis control program manager in his counter affidavit and had observed that the language used was derogatory in nature and an attempted to ridicule court orders by alleging that it was the court's interim order which put the life of patients in danger.
Plaintiff Getz pharma had filed a lawsuit against provincial government, the program manager of prevention and control of Hepatitis program and others for committing irregularities in the tender process for purchasing Hepatitis B and C vaccines.
Additional Advocate General Mukesh Kumar filed his affidavit tendering an unconditional apology in relation to the contents of para-7 of the affidavit which contained defamatory and derogatory remarks. He submitted that the affidavit was not drafted by him but he had only signed the application and someone else had drafted the affidavit in support of the application. Advocate General Sindh undertook to inquire as to who was responsible for drafting the affidavit in support of the application.
The SHC’s single bench headed by Justice Mohammad Shafi Siddiqui directed the AG Sindh to submit his report within three days whereas the unconditional apology of the Additional Advocate General was accepted, subject to the report that would be filed by the Advocate General.