Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Jitu Patwari on Saturday accused the state government of negligence in connection with the death of more than 20 children, allegedly by contaminated cough syrup, and demanded the resignation of the state health minister, a CBI probe, and the death penalty for the manufacturer.

Patwari demanded that cases of culpable homicide be registered against the state’s drug controller and senior health officials.

“The owner of the company who has been arrested from Tamil Nadu should be given the death penalty. But why are you leaving the drug controller, who is the main culprit of the incident? Why did the health minister keep giving him the clean chit? This means there was corruption,” Patwari alleged.

He said that at least 22 children, mostly from Chhindwara dist

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