Laparoscopic surgeon R K Gupta, who had performed sterilisation procedures on 83 women in one of those camps at Pendari village in Bilaspur district in a matter of few hours, was arrested yesterday.
Gupta, who is claimed to have performed 50,000 sterilisation surgeries in his career, and Bilaspur's Chief Medical and Health Officer R K Bhange, were later dismissed from service.
The FDA had yesterday sealed the manufacturing unit where substantial quantities of drugs had been found burnt.
The action followed registration of a case by Drug Inspector Tripti Jain last night after a preliminary examination of medicines.
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FDA authorities also raided a manufacturing unit of Kavita Pharmaceuticals, which too had supplied medicines to the sterilisation camps and collected samples for tests.
Meanwhile, the state government has constituted a one-member Judicial Commission of Inquiry to probe the incidents of bungled surgeries which have claimed the lives of 13 young women so far and left 138 ill, several critically.
The commission has been asked to submit its report within three months, it said.
Chief Minister Raman Singh had yesterday announced institution of a "transparent and unbiased" judicial probe into the tragedy.
The Chief Minister today rejected Congress demand for his resignation. "Will by resignation resolve this issue. This is no option. Congress is only trying to politicise the issue," he said.