New Delhi: A metropolitan court here on Thursday sent to 14-day judicial custody the owner and on-duty doctor of a private hospital where seven newborns died and five were injured in a fire on May 25. They went.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand remanded the hospital owner Dr Naveen Khichi and Dr Akash, who were on duty when the fire broke out late Saturday night, to judicial custody.
Meanwhile, the doctor has filed a bail plea which will be heard on June 3.
A massive fire broke out on Saturday night at Baby Care New Born Child Hospital in East Delhi's Vivek Vihar, which was reportedly running illegally with an "expired" license and without any clearance from the fire department.
Under IPC sections 33 (endangering life and personal safety of others), 304 A (causing death by negligence), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) at Vivek Vihar police station. Case has been registered. The case has been registered. ,
Both were arrested on Sunday and sent to police custody on May 27.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand remanded the hospital owner Dr Naveen Khichi and Dr Akash, who were on duty when the fire broke out late Saturday night, to judicial custody.
Meanwhile, the doctor has filed a bail plea which will be heard on June 3.
A massive fire broke out on Saturday night at Baby Care New Born Child Hospital in East Delhi's Vivek Vihar, which was reportedly running illegally with an "expired" license and without any clearance from the fire department.
Under IPC sections 33 (endangering life and personal safety of others), 304 A (causing death by negligence), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) at Vivek Vihar police station. Case has been registered. The case has been registered. ,
Both were arrested on Sunday and sent to police custody on May 27.
