The police in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district have arrested a government doctor who allegedly prescribed a cough syrup suspected to be linked to the deaths of 11 children, The Times of India reported.

The doctor, Praveen Soni, was said to have prescribed the cough syrup Coldrif, now banned in the state, to children, leading to 11 deaths over the course of the past month. While Soni was a paediatrician at the Civil Hospital in Chhindwara’s Parasia town, he also had a private practice, the police alleged.

The doctor was taken into custody late on Saturday, The Hindu quoted Chhindwara Superintendent of Police Ajay Pandey as saying. The police filed a case against Soni as well as the Tamil Nadu-based company that manufactured the cough syrup, Sresan Pharmaceuticals.

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