The High Court has granted one year's bail to Helena Pasha, a director of Adflame Pharmaceuticals, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the paracetamol syrup adulteration case.
The HC bench of Justice Sayed AB Mahmudul Huq and Justice Akram Hossain Chowdhury on Wednesday passed the order following an appeal filed by Helena against the lower court verdict.
Deputy Attorney General Shafiul Bashar Bhandary told The Daily Star that the High Court gave the bail to Helena, considering her illness and old age.
Helena is now at the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University under custody, he said, adding that Helena is now 78-year old.

Shafiul also said the government will not appeal to the Supreme Court against the HC order.
In the first-ever instance of conviction for drug adulteration in the country, a Dhaka court on July 22 awarded 10 years' rigorous imprisonment to Helena, director of Adflame Pharmaceuticals, Mizanur Rahman, manager and her brother, and Nrigendra Nath Bala, production officer of the company.  
The three were also fined Tk 2 lakh each under the Drug (Control) Ordinance, 1982.
Adflame's paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.
The Adflame trial proceedings, which had remained halted for 16 years, resumed in 2009 after The Daily Star ran a report, exposing how corruption and manipulation had been delaying the trial.