Staff Reporter :A Supreme Court lawyer on Sunday filed a writ petition seeking High Court directives to cancel licences of 20 pharmaceutical companies for their alleged failure of producing standard drugs. Advocate Manzil Murshid, President of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) filed the writ with the HC saying that a five-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has been formed to detect the sub-standard drugs producing companies on September 20, 2014. The Committee comprises Professor ABM Faroque, Department of Pharmaceutical Techonology, University of Dhaka, Professor M Shahabuddin Kabir Chowdhury, Department of Pharmacy of Jahangirnagar University, Professor Dr. M Anwar Ul Islam, Department of Pharmacy, University of Rajshahi, Professor Dr. Sitexh Chandra Bachar, Department of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka and Professor Dr. Mohammad Shawkat Ali, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Dhaka. The Committee on visiting 84 pharmaceutical companies submitted the report on February 1 this year with the suggestion of banning 20 companies on drugs production and 14 companies on production of Anti-biotics (Non-penicillin, penicillin and Cephalosporins). The recommendation has not been maintained till now. As a result writ petition has been filed, said Manzil Murshid. A bench of High Court Division comprising Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq may hear the petition on Monday, added Murshid.
