KOLKATA: All seven directors of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital have been sent to police custody till December 20. The directors were produced in court earlier today.
The directors, Radhe Shyam Goenka, Prashant Goenka, Manish Goenka, Shrawan Kumar Todi, Ravi Todi, Dayanand Aggarwal and Radhe Ahyam Aggarwal, had voluntarily surrendered to the police yesterday and were later arrested for culpable homicide and negligence.
Civic authorities on Saturday also sealed two blocks of the hospital. Meanwhile, a small fire was also reported from the basement of the hospital. A fire engine stationed at the hospital doused the fire.
90 people, most of them patients in sleep, were yesterday choked to death in the fire suspected to have been caused by inflammable material stored in the basement of a multi-speciality private hospital. Authorities handed over majority of the bodies to their relatives.
The postmortem of 87 of the total 90 who were choked to death due to the fire yesterday was completed last night and the autopsy of the rest three would be done during the day, police said.
The police, however, did not give the number of bodies handed over to their families.
Family members of 65 year-old Bangladesh resident Gouranga Mondal, who was among the victims, had reached the morgue to receive his body. Mondal's body would be flown to his country, the police, however, said.
The body of a resident of Tripura would also be handed over to his family today.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has already cancelled the licence of the hospital on the charge of gross negligence and lapse.
A few patients are, however, still inside the old block of the hospital which was unaffected in the blaze. Their worried relatives waited outside as there were no doctors or nursing staff to provide any treatment or attend to them. The number of patients in the old block was not provided by the police or the hospital authorities.
Source: TOI
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