The owner of Sresan Pharmaceuticals, a Tamil Nadu-based firm that made a cough syrup linked to the deaths of 24 children in Madhya Pradesh, was remanded to 10 days of police custody by a court in M.P.’s Chhindwara on Friday (October 10, 2025).

G. Ranganathan was arrested at his home in Chennai by an M.P. Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Thursday, and then brought to M.P. and produced before a court in Chhindwara’s Parasia, where a case has been registered. He was booked after the Coldrif cough syrup, manufactured at his factory in T.N.’s Kancheepuram, was linked to the deaths of children due to kidney failure.

Jabalpur Inspector General of Police Pramod Verma told The Hindu that Mr. Ranganathan would be interrogated for details on the manufacturing procedures followed at his facto

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