‘Shocks judicial conscience’: HC over drug sample failing to reach Kolkata Lab for 8 years

‘Shocks judicial conscience’: HC over drug sample failing to reach Kolkata Lab for 8 years

Observing the case as “rare one” shocking judicial conscience, the High Court of J&K and Ladakh has ordered a probe into a drug sample that failed to reach the Central Drugs Laboratory, Kolkata, for nearly eight years, even as it directed the J&K’s Drug Controller to set up a panel to fix responsibility whether any official had a role in preventing the sample from reaching the facility. A bench of Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal ordered the probe whi…