AMRI directors in police custody

KOLKATA, Dec 10 (BSS): A court in West Bengal Saturday ordered six directors of the city's AMRI Hospital, where fire claimed 90 lives, to 10 days in police custody. Six of the seven directors arrested Friday were presented before the court. One director, RS Agarwal, could not be presented before the court on medical grounds. Alipore Chief Judicial Magistrate SM Shahnawaz Khan, accepting the plea of the prosecution, ordered the six directors, including Shrachi Group Chairman SK Todi and his counterpart in the Emami Group RS Goenka, to 10 days in police custody. Seven directors were arrested Friday for several non- bailable offences, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which attracts a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. Agarwal got himself admitted to a private hospital Friday evening and has been kept under arrest there.