{
  "id": 15674334,
  "title": "Single Lab Report Not Enough! Supreme Court Quashes Drug Firm's Blacklisting In Madhya Pradesh",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/single-lab-report-not-enough-supreme-court-quashes-drug-firms",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T23:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/single-lab-report-not-enough-supreme-court-quashes-drug-firms-blacklisting-in-madhya-pradesh"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On September 23, 2024, a show-cause notice was issued to medicine supplier M/s JPEE Drugs, demanding an explanation as to why it should not be blacklisted by the Madhya Pradesh Public Health Services Corporation Limited (MPPHSCL). The corporation had blacklisted the firm for three years and debarred one of its products for two years, based on a single laboratory report declaring four batches as not of standard quality. However, the Supreme Court has now quashed this decision, stating that the corporation had failed to conduct the mandatory second-laboratory test under tender conditions. The court noted that batches had expired before retesting, and the corporation had relied on the initial lab report without drawing the second sample as required by the tender document. The court's order quashes the blacklisting and debarment, allowing M/s JPEE Drugs to resume its operations.",
  "summary": "Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The Supreme Court has quashed the three-year blacklisting of a medicine supplier and the two-year debarment of one of its products by Madhya Pradesh Public Health Services Corporation Limited (MPPHSCL), citing the failure to conduct a mandatory second-laboratory test under tender conditions. A full bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Augustine George Masih and Justice…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}