The Madhya Pradesh Police have arrested Sresan Pharmaceuticals owner S. Ranganathan from Chennai in connection with the death of children linked to a contaminated cough syrup.

Ranganathan will be presented before a city court on Thursday and brought to Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh after securing a transit remand.

Sresan Pharmaceuticals, based in Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, is the manufacturer of Coldrif syrup, the samples of which were found to have contained diethylene glycol, a poisonous substance.

#BREAKING Ranganathan, owner of Sresan Pharmaceuticals in Sunguvarchatram, Kancheepuram, has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 20 children in Madhya Pradesh who consumed his company’s cough syrup. The arrest was carried out by Madhya Pradesh police with assistance… pic.twitte

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