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OGP demands CBI probe into foeticide cases

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Gana Parishad on Sunday demanded CBI inquiry into large scale female foeticide and manufacturing and marketing of fake medicines in the State.

Stating that the Crime Branch investigation ordered into both the cases will not serve any purpose, OGP president Bijay Mohapatra said that the Government should hand over the case to the CBI it was genuinely concerned over the issues.

"The formation of district-level task forces to check female foeticide and fake drug trade will not help when the authorities themselves were involved in the crime," Mr. Mohapatra observed.

At a press conference, Mr. Mohapatra said that both female foeticide and fake drug racket had exposed the tall claim of Naveen Patnaik Government of providing a clean and transparent administration. The fact that Nayagarh district had seen posting of as many as 16 doctors as Chief District Medical Officers from 2000 to 2007 and the State having at least six leaders, including Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, working as Health Minister brings to the fore in instability that prevailed in the Health sector, Mr. Mohapatra added.

The OGP president further blamed the Chief Minister saying that Mr. Patnaik had not taken any step to check the fake drug racket though the matter had been brought to his notice by Health Minister Duryodhan Majhi last year. Mr. Mohapatra said that his party, along with the Communist Party of India(Marxist), Communist Party of India and Janata Dal(S), was planning to launch a State-wide agitation to expose involvement of the administration in both female foeticide and spurious medicine trade.

Meanwhile, CPI(M) State secretary Janardan Pati demanded that the Chief Minister should clarify as to why he had not taken any action on the letter that Mr. Majhi wrote to him in May last year.

The CPI(M) is planning to organise a protest rally in Nayagarh on August 3 to protest against female foeticide and fake medicine business, Mr. Pati informed.

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