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 Calcutta High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Preeti Surekha, a director of AMRI Hospital, where more than 90 patients died of suffocation in a fire mishap last year. A division bench headed by Justice Ashim Roy granted the bail prayer of Surekha, who was one of the three directors who could not be arrested after the fire at AMRI Hospital. All the directors of the hospital...
06:59 PM, May 18, 2012
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: After spending 111 days in custody, two directors of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital were on Wednesday granted bail by the Calcutta High Court, which observed that day-to-day affairs of the hospital were not run by them. A division bench comprising justices Ashim Kumar Roy and Asim Kumar Ray granted the bail prayers of RS Goenka and Prashant Goenka, directors of AMRI where a fire in December last year claimed...
06:31 PM, Mar 28, 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 AMRI board members Mani Chhetri and Pranab Dasgupta will be produced in court on Thursday over the AMRI fire tragedy. Dr Mani Chhetri, the MD of the company and Dr Pranab Dasgupta, a member of the AMRI Board, were arrested last week. Prosecutors are hoping to get vital information on incriminating documents required for the investigation of the case. Nine directors and four senior officials have been arrested...
08:26 AM, 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: A city court on Thursday rejected bail prayers and extended the judicial custody of six directors and two officers of AMRI Hospital, where 93 people died after inhaling poisonous smoke from a fire, till January 19. Rejecting their bail prayers, Chief Judicial Magistrate of Alipore court SM Shahnawaz extended the judicial custody of directors RS Goenka, SK Todi, Prashant Goenka, Manish Goenka, Ravi Todi, Dayanand Agarwal and officers S...
09:10 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Kolkata: A day after industry lobby FICCI urged the West Bengal government to release the seven AMRI Hospital directors who were arrested after a fire killed 93 people at the premises, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the law would take its own course in the case. "A business house had requested me not to take any action against them (AMRI directors). But it is not correct. We want...
03:29 AM, Jan 04, 2012
FICCI wrote a letter to the WB Govt saying it was necessary to ensure that no victimization of people took place in the name of justice. ...
11:22 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Speaking to news reporters on Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at FICCI saying the state did not want an industry that killed people. "A chamber has said that the directors of AMRI should be released. I want to tell them that we want industry here, but we do not want industry that will kill people. "A murderer's identity is that of a murderer, a terrorist...
03:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Monday started paying compensation to the family members of the victims of AMRI hospital fire which left 93 people dead. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced compensation of Rs 300,000 for the family members of the victims. On Monday, family members of 29 victims were handed over the cheques at the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar. Family members of some of the victims decided...
11:40 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of six directors of Kolkata's AMRI hospital ends on Friday. They are likely to be produced in court over the fire tragedy at the AMRI hospital that left several dead. Their custody was extended for three more days on December 20. A case of negligence among others was filed against them after a fire in the hospital claimed over 90 lives on December 9. The...
08:20 AM, Dec 23, 2011
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
New Delhi: India's apex agency for disaster management is preparing "mandatory" guidelines to cover fire and other emergency hazards in hospitals and a core group would be formed next week to finalise the rules, an official said on Saturday. The decision has been taken after a major fire struck a super speciality medical centre in Kolkata killing over 90 people last week. The hospital is accused of having no fire...
07:19 PM, Dec 17, 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: Two more senior officials of the AMRI Hospital in south Kolkata were arrested on Tuesday and remanded in 10-day police custody over the fire tragedy that left 93 people dead. This has taken the total number of arrests to nine. Sanjeev Pal, the maintenance manager of AMRI Hospital, had issued an undertaking to the government to remove from the hospital's basement all hazardous substances by October. On the basis...
08:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
