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AMRI, vice-president, administration, Pritha Banerjee and a staff member Sajid Hussain, who were in charge of the hospital on the night of the fire, were arrested.

Preliminary report says AMRI fire due to inflammatory articles Kolkata: Two management staff of the AMRI Hospital, where 90 persons, mostly patients, choked to death from a fire in the basement on 9 December , were arrested today.

AMRI, vice-president, administration, Pritha Banerjee and a staff member Sajid Hussain, who were in charge of the hospital on the night of the fire, were arrested, police sources said.

This has taken the total number of arrests to 11. The two were remanded to police custody till 30 January by a court here. They were charged under sections 304 (culpable homicide, not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), 285 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter) and 34 (common intention) of IPC as also under West Bengal fire services Act.

A preliminary report on the fire at AMRI hospital submitted today said inflammatory articles and pvc pipes were kept in the basement of the building from where the fire originated asphyxiating 93 people to death.

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