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SC verdict: Rs.5.96 crore compensation awarded to NRI for medical negligence by AMRI Hospital, Kolkata

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court today awarded Rs.5.96 crore compensation to Kunal Saha, an Indian-American doctor, ordering the Kolkata-based Advance Medicare Research Institute (AMRI) to pay for medical negligence resulting in the death of his

IANS Updated on: October 24, 2013 22:26 IST


The apex court earlier held some of the doctors of the hospital liable for criminal liability.

The court directed that the hospital would pay the compensation along with an interest of 6 percent per annum from 1998.

The court has asked two doctors - Balram Prakash and Sukamar Mukharjee - to pay Rs.10 lakh each and asked another doctor, Baidyanath Haldar, to pay Rs.5 lakh to Saha.

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