Thirteen months after the deadly AMRI hospital fire tragedy in Kolkata that killed more than 90 people, the trial of the case has still not begun. Victims' families are demanding the case be fast-tracked and have also written to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for justice. ...
07:19 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Kolkata: The AMRI Hospital authorities are planning to reopen a portion of their complex in Dhakuria, sealed off by Kolkata Police after a major fire choked 94 people to death in a hospital building in December 2011. "Yes, we are planning to open the unaffected portions of the complex shortly," said Manish Goenka, director of Advanced Medicare Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital. Goenka, however, declined to give more details, saying, "We...
02:01 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: A city court on Tuesday granted bail to two senior officials of AMRI hospital, where over 90 people died in a devastating fire in December 2011. District sessions judge of Alipore Sudeb Mitra granted bail to Sanjib Pal and D N Agarwal. A devastating fire broke out in the basement of AMRI hospital's seven-storied centrally air-conditioned annexe building in the early hours of December 9. More than 90 people,...
10:43 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Thursday submitted charge sheet against all 16 accused in the AMRI fire in which 90 people died of suffocation on December 9 last year. The detective department investigating the case submitted a nearly 1200-page charge sheet within 83 days before the acting chief judicial magistrate of Alipore court. There were 450 witnesses in the case, according to the prosecution. The court rejected the bail prayer...
08:32 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to AMRI director RS Agarwal but rejected similar pleas of four other board members of the private hospital, where over 90 people suffocated to death in the December 9 fire tragedy. A division bench, comprising Justice Asim Roy and Justice Tarun Gupta, granted the bail prayer of Agarwal and rejected those of RS Goenka, Manish Goenka, Prasant Goenka and Ravi Todi....
06:18 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Kolkata: A city court on Thursday granted interim bail to renowned Dr Mani Chettri, arrested in connection with the fire at AMRI hospital that claimed 93 lives. Chettri, the managing director in whose name the hospital had the licence, was arrested on January 27 along with another renowned doctor Pranab Dasgupta. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore, C H Karim granted interim bail to Chettri till February 16 on a bond of...
11:11 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Kolkata: Two more AMRI directors were held in hospital fire case on Friday. Kolkata police arrested Dr Moni Chhetri, the MD of the company and Dr Pranab Dasgupta, a member of the AMRI Board. Nine directors and four senior officials have been arrested so far in the case. The fire at the Kolkata-based hospital killed 93 people till January 19. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced compensation of...
10:31 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Kolkata: The six directors of the AMRI hospital, where a major fire killed at least 91 people, were on Tuesday sent to police custody for further three more days by a Kolkata court. They were on December 10 sent to a police custody till December 20. A case of negligence among others was filed against them after a fire in the hospital claimed 91 lives on December 9. The AMRI...
07:38 PM, Dec 20, 2011
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It was a little before 6 am. I got a call. There was a fire at AMRI. My mother woke up next to me asking ...
01:15 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Kolkata: The West Bengal Health Department, after health officials visited the main wing of the AMRI Hospital on Tuesday, instructed the Dhakuria wing of the hospital, where over 90 people killed in fire, to stop admitting new patients in the main wing as well. The main building was still in operation after the Annexe building was sealed after Friday's fire. This, in effect, means that the state government has cancelled...
09:51 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Kolkata: A section of staff of AMRI hospital, where 93 people suffocated to death following a devastating fire, on Tuesday beat up journalists alleging that they were showing the hospital in bad light leading to the arrest of two of the members. "Two staff members of AMRI have been arrested on charges of manhandling journalists," JCP (headquarters) of Kolkata Police Jawed Shamim said. The two, Tapan Naskar and D N...
07:57 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who made a surprise visit to AMRI Hospital on Tuesday morning, was greeted with angry protests from employees of the hospital fearing loss of jobs due to cancellation of licence after the fire tragedy. Apparently taken aback by the behaviour of the staffers, the chief minister scoffed at them saying they do not have any regret even after the death of so many...
03:43 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Two more officials of south Kolkata's AMRI Hospital have been arrested over Friday's fire tragedy that left 91 people dead. S Upadhay, senior vice-president and the hospital safety committee chairman and Sanjiv Pal, Administrative Officer, of the hospital were arrested on Tuesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Damayanti Sen said. The two officials would be produced before a city court later in the day, he said. Nine persons...
10:18 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Kolkata: It's been 4 days since the horrific fire took place at the AMRI hospital where the death toll stands at 91 but one family is still looking for their loved one. The body continues to be untraceable and his name is also not on the dead persons list. 24-year old Paritosh Das's first visit to Kolkata turned out to be his worst nightmare. A resident of Agartala, Tripura, this...
07:29 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Kolkata: A four-member probe team from fire services department on Monday visited a number of private and government hospitals to review fire-fighting arrangements there to avoid disasters like AMRI. "The Government is committed to taking stern action against those flouting fire safety norms. NOC for fire safety compliance is mandatory for all as we don't want such disasters to take place again," state's Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan said here...
11:27 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday led a candlelight procession in Kolkata in memory of the victims of Friday's fire at the AMRI Hospital. Thousands of mourners from all walks of life, carrying candles and joss sticks, joined Banerjee in the one-and-a-half km walk from the Birla Planetarium to the Gandhi statue on the Maidan. A galaxy of eminent personalities, including singer Usha Uthup, writer Sunil Gangopadhyay,...
09:55 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Kolkata: Three days after the devastating fire at the AMRI hospital in Kolkata, which killed more than 90 people, more facts are coming to light on how the hospital staff and the authorities flouted norms brazenly, and panicked afterward. It now emerges that the smoke alarm had been deliberately switched off, and sprinklers didn't work since the alarm was off. Also, the hospital authorities didn't call the fire department and...
09:10 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Kolkata Police dedicated a column in memory of the AMRI victims at the Safari Park in Rabindra Sarobar, Kolkata. ...
12:35 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Kolkata: Eighty three bodies in 13 hours 50 minutes - it was a marathon autopsy session. Fifty seven-year-old Dr Bishwanath Kahali of the SSKM hospital worked tirelessly through Friday night conducting autopsies on the victims of the AMRI fire - one of country's worst hospital fire tragedies. Even as bodies lined up before him, Dr Kahali said he had to keep going and that he tried not to let his...
09:59 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Kolkata: Forensic experts on Sunday could not collect evidence at the AMRI Hospital, where more than 90 persons lost their lives after inhaling toxic fumes from a devastating fire on Friday, as the basement where the fire started was still under several feet of water. As the basement is still flooded, forensic experts could not go inside to collect evidence to ascertain the cause of the fire and what materials...
07:19 PM, Dec 11, 2011
