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Months after Uzbekistan claimed that 18 children in the country died after allegedly taking an India-manufactured cough syrup, three employees of Noida pharma firm Marion Biotech have been arrested..
As many as three employees of a Noida-based pharmaceutical firm, Marion Biotech, whose cough syrup is alleged to have led to the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan last year, were arrested..
The arrests were made after an FIR was lodged on Thursday against five officials of Marion Biotech, including two of its directors, over a complaint by a drugs inspector of the CDSCO, officials told PTI...
These people were engaged in preparation and sale of fake drugs which caused serious harm to public, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Rajiv Dixit said.. Besides the three suspects who have been arrested, there are two more directors of the company for whom searches are underway and they will also be arrested soon..
Marion Biotech has been asked by the Drugs Inspector from Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), North Zone to stop the sale and distribution of the drug concerned...
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