A court in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district has sent the owner of a pharmaceutical company, arrested on Thursday in connection with the deaths of 22 children who consumed contaminated cough syrup, to 10 days’ police custody.

Sresan Pharmaceutical Manufacture owner G Ranganathan was arrested from his apartment in Kodambakkam in Chennai , by a seven-member team from the Madhya Pradesh Police. According to police sources, Ranganathan has argued in court that he had been manufacturing the cough syrup for years “without any issues”.

Several children in Chhindwara’s Parasia town fell ill and suffered kidney damage, allegedly after consuming Coldrif cough syrup, which is manufactured by Sresan Pharmaceutical. At least 22 of them have died. The cough syrup was found to contain lethal level

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