BigstockThe court fined Abdur Rob Tk50,000A Dhaka court has sentenced Abdur Rob, director of Polychem Laboratories Limited, to one year of imprisonment in a case filed over the manufacturing of toxic paracetamol syrup. Twenty-six years after filing of the case, Dhaka Drug Court Judge Syed Kamal Hossain gave the verdict on Thursday afternoon. The court fined Abdur Rob Tk50,000; in default, he will have to serve an extra three months in jail. Meanwhile, the court acquitted three other accused—Polychem’s manager ASM Golam Qader, pharmacists Mahbubul Alam and Delwar Hossain—from the case. In 1992, then-director general of Drug Administration Abul Khayer Chowdhury filed a case against four pharmaceutical companies, including Polychem, accusing them of causing the deaths of 92 children.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 07, 2019 08:34 UTC