CHENNAI: A seven-member police team from Madhya Pradesh arrested G Ranganathan, the 73-year-old owner of Sresan Pharmaceuticals, in Chennai on Thursday. His company has been accused of manufacturing Coldrif, a cough syrup found to contain toxic chemicals and linked to the deaths of 21 children in Madhya Pradesh. A longstanding name in Tamil Nadu’s pharmaceutical industry, Ranganathan is now at the centre of a national scandal. His journey — from door-to-door pharmacist promoting nutritional syrups in the 1980s to a manhunt led across state lines — has stunned the industry. A pharmacy graduate from Madras Medical College, Ranganathan rose to prominence with Pronit, a nutritional syrup widely prescribed to pregnant women during the early 1980s. He personally promoted the product

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