AMRI directors denied bail
December 23rd, 2011 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) A West Bengal court Friday denied bail to the arrested directors of AMRI Hospital, where a pre-dawn blaze killed 93 people earlier this month, and remanded six of them to judicial custody till Jan 5 next year.
Chief Judicial Magistrate C.H. Karim of Alipore court (South 24 Parganas) also ordered that the seventh director R.S. Agarwal be interrogated in the presence of the attending doctor at the state run SSKM Hospital where he is admitted now.
Agarwal, one of the seven AMRI directors arrested Dec 9, hours after the blaze at the hospital in South Kolkata’s Dhakuria area, has been kept under arrest at SSKM.
The six other arrested directors of the hospital, including Shrachi Group chairman S.K. Todi and his counterpart in the Emami Group R.S. Goenka, were given 14 days? judicial custody till Jan 5.
Police custody of the hospital?s senior vice president (projects) S. Upadhyay and senior manager (maintenance) Sanjiv Pal - arrested Dec 13 - were extended by four days till Dec 26.
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