AMRI fire: lawyers protest against moving bail petition of accused
A day after the devastating fire at the AMRI Hospitals which claimed at least 90 lives, the lawyers representing six directors of the hospital could not move the bail petition for the accused because of the protests of the lawyers' association in Alipore on Saturday.
The representatives of the association protested in front of the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate and said that none of the lawyers from the court would represent the six accused who were arrested on Friday.
“Let that be recorded that we could not move the bail petition,” Amitava Ganguly, one of the lawyers representing the accused told the court and did not move the bail petition of the accused. Later Mr. Ganguly said that there has been no denial of “constitutional rights” for the accused by not allowing the bail petition to be moved.
Counsel for the State, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee said that not only Kolkata but the entire country is in a state of shock because of the incident. “They have not discharged their duty and we need to investigate more on who else is involved,” Mr. Banerjee argued.
Meanwhile, the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate today sent the accused to police custody till December 20. In his order, the magistrate also noted the protest of the lawyers' association.
Six directors of the AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria S.K. Todi, Ravi Todi, R.S. Goenka, Prasannta Goenka, Manish Goenka and Dayannand Agarwal, were arrested on Friday evening and were brought to the court of the CJM on Saturday afternoon.
Police personnel have been posted outside the nursing home of the seventh accused Radheshyam Agarwal who was hospitalised before the incident. The Counsel of the State government claimed that the seventh accused, although arrested, has not been put to any interrogation.
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