In mounting trouble for Dr Praveen Soni — the paediatrician who was accused of prescribing contaminated cough syrup that allegedly left 14 children dead — the Madhya Pradesh government has suspended the licence of a medical store reportedly owned by a member of his family.

The MP government is now probing why a large batch of contaminated cough syrup landed in Chhindwara district’s Parasia in the first place. Over 600 contaminated cough syrup was dispatched from Jabalpur to Chhindwara, and a large batch of it left for Parasia.

Local authorities have traced and seized approximately 400 cough syrups, of which 200 remain to be traced, with fears that they must already be in circulation.

“The clinic owned by one family member is located on the ground floor of his home adjacent to his cl

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