India, Oct. 13 -- The Tamil Nadu government on Monday revoked the license issued to Sresan Pharmaceuticals for manufacturing the contaminated cough syrup, Coldrif, that's linked to the deaths of 22 children in Madhya Pradesh.

"The license to manufacture has been entirely cancelled and the firm has been closed down," said a statement from the state's health department.

The owner, G Ranganathan, of the Sresan Pharma based in Tamil Nadu's Kancheepuram district was arrested from his Chennai residence by a SIT from Madhya Pradesh last week. Tamil Nadu suspended state drug inspectors in Kancheepuram for failing to not inspect the pharma unit after 2022.

After Madhya Pradesh's drug authority wrote to its counterpart in Tamil Nadu on October 1...