**The chief of a Bangladeshi drugs firm has been jailed after a court denied him bail in a case related to the manufacture of toxic paracetamol syrup.**The judge said the managing director of Rid Pharmaceuticals Mizanur Rahman had a role in the preparation of the toxic medicine which killed 28 children.
The infants, all between the ages of 11 months and three years, died after apparently being given the medicine.
Doctors confirmed that the syrup contained the lethal diethylene glycol.
This is a chemical used in the textile and leather dyeing industries.
Bangladesh’s Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haq said diethylene glycol had been mixed with the paracetamol because it is 10 times cheaper than the normal solvent.
The order to detain Mr Rahman in prison came after he surrendered himself to the court.
The victims lived in Brahmanbaria, an eastern district where the authorities later closed down the company which made the medicine.
The children all died of kidney failure within six weeks of taking the medicine.
Officials said they believed that the presence of diethylene glycol in medicine was also responsible for the deaths of as many as 300 people in Bangladesh the 1990s.