The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking a court-monitored CBI probe into deaths of around 22 children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan allegedly due to consumption of toxic cough syrups.

”Daily deaths are rising. Not the first instance of such adulterated medicine. States are blaming each other. Probe by one agency is needed,” petitioner advocate Vishal Tiwari told a Bench led by Chief Justice of India BR Gavai.

However, the Bench rejected the PIL after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta objected to it, saying Tiwari was in the habit of filing petitions based on newspaper reports.

Clarifying that said he was not representing any state, Mehta said the seriousness with which Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh governments were taking actions cannot be undermined.

The Solicitor General s

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