India, Feb. 19 -- The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently denied bail to Dr. Pravin Soni, arrested last year for prescribing Coldrif cough syrup that led to the death of several children in Chhindwara district.

In an order passed on Tuesday, Justice Pramod Kumar Agrawal took note of a statement that a senior doctor from Nagpur had warned Dr Soni about similar deaths that had taken place in 1998 due to an adulterated cough syrup. Despite the same, Dr Soni kept prescribing the cough syrup, which led to the loss of 26 lives, the Court said.

"Despite the conversation which took place between the present applicant and senior doctor Shri Praveen Khapekar wherein Dr Praveen Khapekar informed him that in 1998 at Delhi, due to DEG-contaminated co...