Kolkata blaze: Hospital director’s bail plea rejected

December 21st, 2011 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS  

Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) A West Bengal court Wednesday rejected the bail plea of AMRI Hospital director R.S. Agarwal, an accused in the hospital fire tragedy that killed 93 people Dec 9, as also a police plea for his custody and ordered that he be kept at a hospital under arrest till his medical report is submitted.

The blaze at 3.30 a.m. in the Advanced Medicare & Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital — co-founded by the Emami and Shrachi Groups along with the state government in 1996 — choked and burnt to death mostly critically ill patients and two nurses, while most doctors and other staffers were able to get away.

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