Kolkata:
A West Bengal court Friday denied bail to the arrested directors of AMRI Hospital, where a pre-dawn blaze killed over 90 people earlier this month, and remanded six of them to judicial custody till January 5 next year.
Chief Judicial Magistrate CH Karim of Alipore court also ordered that the seventh director RS Agarwal be interrogated in the presence of the attending doctor at the state run SSKM Hospital where he is admitted now.
Mr Agarwal, one of the seven AMRI directors arrested on December 9, hours after the blaze at the hospital in South Kolkata's Dhakuria area, has been kept under arrest at SSKM hospital.
The six other arrested directors of the hospital, including Shrachi Group chairman SK Todi and his counterpart in the Emami Group RS Goenka, were given 14 days judicial custody till January 5.
Police custody of the hospital's senior vice president (projects) S Upadhyay and senior manager (maintenance) Sanjiv Pal - arrested on December 13 - were extended by four days till December 26.