The Noida Police on Friday, 3 March arrested three employees of a pharmaceutical company whose cough syrup had allegedly led to the deaths of 18 children in Uzbekistan in December 2022.
The case: This comes after an FIR was filed on Thursday against five officials of Marion Biotech, which included two of the firm's directors, according to news agency PTI.
The complaint was filed by a drugs inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, officials said.
The central and Uttar Pradesh drug authorities had found 22 samples of Marion Biotech's drugs to not be of standard quality, i.e. adulterated and spurious.