Indian Sterilization Pills Laced With Rat Poison!

Startling revelation on the ten Indian women who died, while dozen others fell seriously ill after receiving state sterilisation to control growing population, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh might have been given antibiotic pills contaminated with rat poison, a senior official said on Friday.

Divisional commissioner in the district of Bilaspur, Sonmoni Borah in a telephone interview, reportedly said tablets of ciprofloxacin that were seized in Mahawar Pharma, were found to contain zinc phosphide.

“If you do a quick Google search, you will find it is rat poison, and the women were displaying symptoms similar to poisoning,”. He said.

It was gathered that the police on Friday arrested Ramesh Mahawar, the company’s managing director, and his son, Sumit, saying they were suspected of defrauding the government.

Speaking from police custody, Mr. Mahawar told Reuters they were innocent. “The situation has been twisted in a wrong manner,“We are just being harassed.” He said, adding that the company had been manufacturing drugs for 35 years and had annual sales of about $130,000.