Rid Pharma MD Mizanur, wife get bail
Managing Director of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd Mizanur Rahman and his wife Sheuli Rahman secured bail after the couple surrendered before a Dhaka court today in connection with a case filed over the death of 28 children in 2009.
They sought bail in the case after appearing before the court around 11:50am.
Judge M Atoar Rahman of the drug court passed the order after they appeared before it as per order of the High Court.
Earlier on March 8, the HC directed five officials of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd, who were acquitted in a case filed for manufacturing toxic paracetamol syrup, to surrender to the trial court in seven days.
The government in January filed the appeal with the HC seeking adequate sentence for the accused as the trial court judgement was not correct.
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From June to August in 2009, 28 children across the country died of renal failures caused by the intake of the paracetamol syrup and suspension allegedly manufactured by Rid Pharma.
On July 22, 2009, the Drug Administration sealed off Rid's factory in BSCIC area of Brahmanbaria following wide media coverage of the children's death, and findings of Dhaka Shishu Hospital physician Prof Mohammad Hanif that Rid Pharma's Temset had toxic substance.
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In August the same year, Shafiqul Islam, then superintendent of Drug Administration, filed the case with the Dhaka Drug Court and only five prosecution witnesses testified after the court indicted the five accused in March 2011.
On November 28 last year, Judge M Atoar Rahman of the Drug Court in Dhaka acquitted all the five officials observing that the prosecution utterly failed to prove the charge brought against the accused.
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Negligence, inefficiency and incompetence of the Drug Administration in dealing with the case led to the acquittal of all the accused, the judge also said in the verdict.