Court rules out medical negligence in L N Mishra's death

December 18, 2014 21:28

Lalit Narayan Mishra had died due to the injuries sustained in the blast and not due to delay in treatment, a Delhi court has said while rejecting contentions of the convicts who had sought benefit of doubt arguing that the then Railway minister had died due to medical negligence.

In his 1,090-page verdict convicting four persons in the 1975 murder case, district judge Vinod Goel trashed the submissions of defence counsel during the trial that Mishra had died due to cardiac arrest while undergoing surgery and it was the negligence of the doctors treating him. The court said after the blast incident, Mishra was rushed to Danapur for treatment and several doctors treated him.

"Even if there was some delay in providing medical treatment to L N Mishra (in this case there being no such intentional delay caused by the medical experts), the accused persons cannot escape the rigour of law and claim benefit of doubt," the court said.

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