Deputy Solicitor General Ms. Lakmini Girihagama, yesterday (15) while disclosing to Maligakanda Magistrate Mrs. Lochani Abeywickrama Weerasinghe said that Dr. Jayanath Butpitiya, who participated in the technical committee appointed for the purchase of questionable drugs related to the purchase of substandard doses of human immunoglobulin injections, has gone abroad without the permission of the court despite a travel ban on him. Sri Lanka Latest News
Also, the other doctor who participated in this technical evaluation committee, P. R. The Deputy Solicitor General informed the court that Sudarshan has already gone abroad.
Here, the Magistrate issued an order to the Government Suspicious Documents Inspector to examine the signatures of Sugath Janaka Fernando, the owner of Isulate Biotech Pharma Company, who is the first suspect here, who is said to have imported the Bala drugs.
The court issued orders to the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Colombo and the Director of the Ceylon Institute of Physiological Pathology to conduct a ranking analysis and report to the court as to how the drugs in question had been established in the priority ranking.
Before the release of this questionable cabinet paper, the ‘Fonto software’, which contains reports on the health ministry’s medicine stocks, has been created to call for reports on how much stock of medicines the Ministry of Health had. W. Orders were also issued by the court to the executive director of the Information System Institute, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Forum, the suspect document examiner, and the director of the Criminal Investigation Department.
Yesterday (15) the Magistrate also issued an order to the Health Secretary to hand over to the Criminal Investigation Department all the reports related to all the meetings attended by former Health Minister Mr. Keheliya Rambukwella and other officials before the release of this cabinet paper.
The Deputy Solicitor General informed the court that although the original files related to this questionable incident should be in the custody of the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Saman Ratnayake, he has not yet handed them over to the Criminal Investigation Department and their original files have been misplaced.
These facts were presented yesterday (15) when the further magisterial inquiry regarding the purchase of substandard doses of human immunoglobulin injections was called before the court.
