Botched Eye Surgeries: HC absolves 4 Doctors of Criminal Negligence
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Earlier, the chief judicial magistrate's court had on April 22, 2015, awarded a compensation of Rs 2.75 crore to the affected persons and sentenced the doctors to one-year imprisonment, holding them guilty of criminal negligence. The additional district judge enhanced the compensation to Rs 9.85 crore in November 2017.
Madurai: The Madras High Court set aside on Monday a lower court order holding four doctors of an eye hospital guilty of negligence after 60 people lost their eyesight after undergoing cataract surgeries free of cost at a camp in 2008.
Justice G Jayachandran of the Madurai bench of the high court also set aside the November 18, 2017, order of the Additional District Court III (appellate court), enhancing the compensation to the affected persons to Rs 9.85 crore from Rs 2.75 crore.
Quoting the prosecution report, the judge observed that the inspection of the operation theatre was conducted in 2011, three years after the operations were conducted.
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