Uzbekistan cough syrup deaths: Police arrested three workers of a Noida-based pharmaceutical firm that was concerned within the demise of 18 youngsters in Uzbekistan final yr, officials stated on Friday.
The transfer got here after an FIR was lodged late Thursday night time in opposition to 5 officials of Marion Biotech, together with two of its administrators, over a criticism by a medication inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), they stated.
The central and Uttar Pradesh state drug authorities had checked samples of Marion Biotech’s medication and located 22 of them to be ‘not of normal high quality’ (adulterated and spurious), in keeping with the complainant drug inspector.
“Three persons named in the FIR have been arrested, while the two directors of the company are at large. Those arrested are Tuhin Bhattacharya, Head Operation; Atul Rawat, Manufacturing Chemist; and Mool Singh, Analytical Chemist,” Phase 3 police station in-charge Vijay Kumar stated.
Marion Biotech, which has its workplace in Sector 67 right here, had come beneath the scanner in December final yr for its cough syrup Dok-1 that’s suspected to have led to the demise of 18 youngsters who consumed it in Uzbekistan after which the CDSCO launched a probe into the matter.
(With inputs from PTI)
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