Shahjahan Sarker, an executive of now shut BCI Bangladesh, and five partners were given 10 years in jail, the most recent verdicts in the catastrophe that saw youngsters endure kidney disappointment subsequent to drinking the syrup.
"They were given the punishments for debasing paracetamol syrup utilized for infants," prosecutor Nadim Miah told AFP of the medication court's decision in Dhaka.
Then again, just Sarker will be sent to imprison. His five kindred executives and administrators are still on the pursue being charged in 2009 over the outrage that saw the medication contaminated with diethylene glycol, normally utilized as a part of the calfskin business.
The lethal dissolvable was utilized as a less expensive distinct option for the sheltered propylene glycol, which is 10 times more extravagant.
The catastrophe was initially uncovered in the 1990s when specialists said many youngsters passed on, compelling the legislature to take action against the neighborhood drugs industry. In any case, handfuls more youngsters passed on in 2009 when the concoction was again found in paracetamol syrup.
Five nearby organizations were initially embroiled in the embarrassment, which one top pediatrician says goes back similarly as the 1980s and could have slaughtered upwards of a few thousand newborn children.
Three workers of Adflame Pharmaceutical Constrained were imprisoned a year ago. However, the trial of the six from BCI Bangladesh dragged for quite a while until Monday's decision and sentence.
Mohammed Hanif, a top pediatric nephrologist, has told AFP that nearby doctor's facilities initially begun seeing youngsters with kidney disappointment in late 1982. However, it took an additional ten years to build up the passings were because of diethylene glycol.
By then, Hanif, who composed an article in the English Therapeutic Diary on the issue, says a few thousand youngsters had passed on.