Articles for Criminal Negligence

16-Yrs Delay In Completing AIIMS Jodhpur Trauma Centre: Rajasthan HC Pulls Up State, Expresses Inclination To Impose ₹50 Crore Cost
3 weeks, 4 days ago

16-Yrs Delay In Completing AIIMS Jodhpur Trauma Centre: Rajasthan HC Pulls Up State, Expresses Inclination To Impose ₹50 Crore Cost

Live Law  

The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court pulled up the State Government for persistent delays in completion of “critical infrastructure projects” at AIIMS Jodhpur including a trauma centre and expressed its inclination to impose a cost of Rs. While hearing a plea concerning infrastructural issues at AIIMS Jodhpur division bench of Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Justice Munnuri Laxman …

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Matthew Perry, ketamine: Physicians to the famous owe something to their patients.
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Matthew Perry, ketamine: Physicians to the famous owe something to their patients.

Slate  

When a mental health disorder combines with fame and money, it can be a siren call for a variety of evil people. For Perry and thousands more, the actual reason was for yet another ketamine property—for many, it is a powerful treatment to reverse crippling depression. Ketamine is structurally like phencyclidine, also known as the street drug angel dust, among …

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Doctors to be exempted from prosecution for medical negligence: Home Minister
1 year ago

Doctors to be exempted from prosecution for medical negligence: Home Minister

India Today  

The central government will bring an amendment to the criminal law in the future to exempt doctors from criminal prosecution in cases of medical negligence, Union Home Minister Amit Shah told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Hence, I will bring an official amendment now to free the doctors from this criminal negligence,” the Home Minister said as he introduced three new …

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Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter. Here's how the Rust shooting unfolded and what the charge means
1 year, 11 months ago

Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter. Here's how the Rust shooting unfolded and what the charge means

ABC  

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin was on the set of his new film Rust when the prop gun he was holding went off, killing a cinematographer and wounding a director. A New Mexico prosecutor has now announced she will charge Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed with involuntary manslaughter, after more than a year of investigation into the October 2021 shooting on …

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CM Chouhan calls Bhopal hospital fire tragedy ‘criminal negligence’, vows strict action
3 years, 1 month ago

CM Chouhan calls Bhopal hospital fire tragedy ‘criminal negligence’, vows strict action

Hindustan Times  

A day after a fire at a hospital in Bhopal killed four infants, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said an investigation would be conducted into the blaze and its aftermath. Calling the tragedy a matter of “criminal negligence”, Chouhan vowed to take action against those found “guilty.” Shivraj Singh Chouhan said all government and private hospitals in the …

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COVID-19 crisis in Madhya Pradesh | Kamal Nath says it’s ‘criminal negligence’
3 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 crisis in Madhya Pradesh | Kamal Nath says it’s ‘criminal negligence’

The Hindu  

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday accused the BJP government in the State of mismanaging the COVID-19 crisis and termed it as “criminal negligence” on part of the administration. Mr. Nath also alleged that Remdesivir injections were being given by BJP leaders “to their own people”, instead of members of the general public suffering from COVID-19. “The …

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Handling of Ruby Princess COVID-19 incident is 'criminal negligence' says Chris Bowen on Q+A, medical department heads buying from Bunnings
4 years, 9 months ago

Handling of Ruby Princess COVID-19 incident is 'criminal negligence' says Chris Bowen on Q+A, medical department heads buying from Bunnings

ABC  

Frontline health workers were the focus on Q+A as Australia continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic, a fight that has not been aided by the number of cases coming from the Ruby Princess cruise ship. Key points: Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen called the Ruby Princess case "criminal negligence" Frontline health workers in Australia are concerned about a shortage in …

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Medical Professionals Should Not Be Dragged Into Criminal Proceedings Unless Negligence Of A High Order Is Shown: SC [Read Judgment]
4 years, 10 months ago

Medical Professionals Should Not Be Dragged Into Criminal Proceedings Unless Negligence Of A High Order Is Shown: SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has observed that the medical professionals should not be dragged into criminal proceedings unless negligence of a high order is shown. It said: "In Jacob Mathew's Case this Court clearly held that in criminal law medical professionals are placed on a pedestal different from ordinary mortals. Such a medical profession may be liable to pay damages but …

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