New Delhi, March 04, 2023 (PPI-OT): In India, three employees of a Noida-based pharmaceutical company, whose cough syrup is linked to the deaths of 18 children in Uzbekistan last year, were arrested. The arrests were made after an FIR was lodged against five officials, including two directors of Marion Biotech. The FIR was lodged over a complaint by a drugs inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), the officials said.
The involved persons have been identified as Atul Rawat, Tuhin Bhattacharya and Mool Singh and were arrested from Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd. “We have arrested three people out of five from Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd…The case is related to the earlier case of toxic cough syrup sent abroad as the enquiry was done after the incident,” Ram B Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Central Noida, told media.
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