Pharma Officials’ Bail: Bail hearing adjourned till 12th
No proceedings took place on Saturday due to a lawyers' strike.
Two employees of IsoTab manufacturer Efroze Chemicals Nadir Feroz and Shakeel Nagra are seeking bail. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
The pre-arrest bail pleas of Nadir Feroz and Shakeel Nagra, who are accused of criminal negligence in connection with the deaths of some 200 cardiac patients, were adjourned without proceedings on Saturday due to a lawyers’ strike.
The case has been scheduled for February 12. Feroz is the deputy managing director and Nagra the plant general manager at Efroze Chemical Industries, the manufacturer of Isotab, a contaminated batch of which is believed responsible for the deaths of 213 patients.
At the last hearing, the district and sessions judge had given the counsel for the accused more time to prepare his final arguments in light of a judicial inquiry into the deaths.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2013.
The pre-arrest bail pleas of Nadir Feroz and Shakeel Nagra, who are accused of criminal negligence in connection with the deaths of some 200 cardiac patients, were adjourned without proceedings on Saturday due to a lawyers’ strike.
The case has been scheduled for February 12. Feroz is the deputy managing director and Nagra the plant general manager at Efroze Chemical Industries, the manufacturer of Isotab, a contaminated batch of which is believed responsible for the deaths of 213 patients.
At the last hearing, the district and sessions judge had given the counsel for the accused more time to prepare his final arguments in light of a judicial inquiry into the deaths.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2013.