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Uzbekistan cough syrup deaths case: 3 employees of Marion Biotech arrested
The central and Uttar Pradesh state drug authorities had checked samples of Marion Biotech's drugs and found 22 of them to be "not of standard quality".
- By PTI
- Noida
- Mar 04, 2023
The Noida Police arrested three employees of Marion Biotech, a Noida-based pharmaceutical firm whose cough syrup is accused of killing 18 children in Uzbekistan last year, according to officials. The arrests come after a FIR was filed late Thursday night against five Marion Biotech officials, including two of its directors, in response to a complaint filed by a drugs inspector with the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), they said.
The central and Uttar Pradesh state drug authorities had checked samples of Marion Biotech's drugs and found 22 of them to be "not of standard quality" (adulterated and spurious), according to the complainant drug inspector.
"Three persons named in the FIR have been arrested, while the two directors of the company are at large. Those arrested are Tuhin Bhattacharya, Head Operation; Atul Rawat, Manufacturing Chemist; and Mool Singh, Analytical Chemist," Phase 3 police station in-charge Vijay Kumar told PTI.
Marion Biotech, which has its office in Sector 67 here, had come under the scanner in December last year for its cough syrup Dok-1 that is suspected to have led to the death of 18 children who consumed it in Uzbekistan after which the CDSCO launched a probe into the matter.