Tyno case: Police record summoned for Dec 10

LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Anjum Raza has summoned the police record for December 10 on the after-arrest bail pleas of a medical store owner and a distributor accused of selling poisonous cough syrup that killed 19 people.

The judge also summoned the complainant of the FIR. Petitioners Fida Hussain, the owner of Bismillah Medical Store, and Abur Rauf, a pharmaceuticals distributor, submitted that they bore no responsibility for the deaths.

They claimed that tests done on the cough syrup showed that there was nothing wrong with it. They said that those who had been killed consuming the medicine were heroin and hashish addicts and they had used 500 times the recommended dose. Judicial Magistrate Waseem Anjum had earlier remanded Muhammad Rizwan, the owner of Ali Medical Store, Fida Hussain and Abur Rauf in judicial custody. Deputy Health Officer Dr Asim is the complainant in the FIR. The Health Department has banned Tyno cough syrup and instructed drug inspectors to seize all stocks of the cough syrup.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 9^th, 2012.