6 AMRI directors
sent to police custody
Greedy businessmen,
corrupt politicians, and even educated professionals all have made this
country a hell. Common people are increasingly facing difficulties in every
sphere of life. Price rise in essential commodities has been supplemented by
escalation of cost in all other service sectors that includes health service.
In spite of earning millions by hospitals everywhere in the country; the
owners’ greed did not lessen, rather increased unabatedly. The consequences
of their greed are devastating, which we have seen in the death of about 90
people in the fire at the AMRI hospital at Dhakuria, Kolkata.
People’s anger has
gone out of hand in the city and the state government had to take fast action
against those prima facie responsible for this terrible incidence. All the
seven directors of AMRI have been arrested and six of them were produced
before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Alipore Court today, and was sent to
police custody by the Magistrate for 10 days. One director who was hospitalized
soon after arrest has been asked to be produced in the court immediately
after discharge from the hospital. Name of the directors are R S Goenka, S K Todi, Prashant Goenka, Manish
Goenka, Ravi Todi, Dayanand Agarwal,
and R S Agarwal. Kalyan Bannerjee, a MP of Trinamul Congress, appeared as
public prosecutor and Amitava Bannerjee appeared to defend the accused. According
to Amitava Bannerjee, the Magistrate did not permit him to move bail plea for
his clients in the court. Although charge against these above mentioned
people is only culpable homicide not amounting to murder and negligence, we
the common people wonder why the word negligence is not applied to the
charge. We are not worried at this stage of the judicial process, and hope
these people are punished adequately to create precedence so that others
indulging in illegal practices think twice before doing wrongs.