Three get jail term over drug scam that killed 76 children

July 23, 2014 00:00:00

Law-enforcers taking (left) Adflame Pharmaceuticals director Dr Helena Pasha and (right) its manager Mizanur Rahman away from Dhaka Drug Court that awarded Tuesday them 10-year rigorous imprisonment and fined Tk 0.2 million each for producing adulterated

A Dhaka court Tuesday sentenced three officials of a pharmaceutical company to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment each in a case filed in connection with the death of 76 children by taking adulterated drugs 22 years ago, report agencies.

The court also fined the three convicts Tk 0.2 million each.

Judge Abdur Rashid sentenced them to the maximum penalty of 10 years' jail after the first verdicts into the tragedy that saw children suffer deadly kidney failure after taking the syrup.

"They deserve the highest punishment under the country's drug law as it was a heinous crime against humanity," the judge was quoted as saying by prosecutor Shaheen Ahmed Khan.