New Delhi: A court here on Monday accepted the Delhi Police's plea seeking three-day custodial interrogation of the owner and on-duty doctor of the private hospital where seven newborns died in a fire. Infants died and five were injured.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand sent hospital owner Dr Naveen Khichi and Dr Akash – who were on duty when the fire broke out late on Saturday night – to three days' police custody.
Detailed orders are awaited in the matter. Police arrested both the doctors on Sunday.
A massive fire broke out on Saturday night at Baby Care New Born Child Hospital in East Delhi's Vivek Vihar, which was reportedly functioning illegally with an "expired" license and no clearance from the fire department.
Vivek Vihar Police Station under sections 33 (endangering life and personal safety of others) and 304A (causing death by negligence), 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 308 (attempt to murder) of the IPC. A case has been registered under. culpable homicide).
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand sent hospital owner Dr Naveen Khichi and Dr Akash – who were on duty when the fire broke out late on Saturday night – to three days' police custody.
Detailed orders are awaited in the matter. Police arrested both the doctors on Sunday.
A massive fire broke out on Saturday night at Baby Care New Born Child Hospital in East Delhi's Vivek Vihar, which was reportedly functioning illegally with an "expired" license and no clearance from the fire department.
Vivek Vihar Police Station under sections 33 (endangering life and personal safety of others) and 304A (causing death by negligence), 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 308 (attempt to murder) of the IPC. A case has been registered under. culpable homicide).
