Free AMRI directors without direct role: FICCI

Three weeks after the directors of Kolkata’s AMRI Hospital were taken into custody after a fire in the hospital’s basement, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) issued a public statement demanding the immediate release of the directors.

Ficci has slammed the arrest of seven hospital directors as ‘anti-industry’, and not ‘completely non-discriminatory’.

In the statement issued by Ficci, it has demanded the immediate release of those “not responsible for day-to-day operations of any business”. The industry body said that the release would prevent the spread of negative sentiments among investors.

Ficci in its statement said, “it is important to ensure that no overt or covert victimisation of people takes place in the name of justice,” reported CNN-IBN .

It also argued that offenders must be punished only after an objective and transparent enquiry finds them guilty.

Seven AMRI directors , who were arrested and charged with culpable homicide, are currently in judicial custody. The 9 December fire at the hospital killed over 90 people, most of them patients.

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