<h1>Special police probe into alleged toxic cough syrup after 14 child deaths; doctor arrested, pharma firm booked</h1> A state police special investigation team has been formed to probe the deaths of 14 children allegedly linked to a 'toxic' cough syrup; a local doctor has been arrested and suspended for alleged negligence and a pharmaceutical company has been booked. Authorities have registered criminal charges including culpable homicide not amounting to murder and drug adulteration, and a provision under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act carrying potential long imprisonment; sales of the implicated syrup have been banned and stocks seized. Bodies have been exhumed for post-mortem, thousands of samples from children tested, company manufacturing facilities and other products are under inspection, and further forensic testing is ongoing.