The Supreme Court today slammed two private hospital in Ghaziabad who denied to give treatment to a 4-year-old girl raped and murder victim in Uttar Pradesh Ghaziabad.
A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana asked the two private hospital who didn’t provide medical care to the girl to pay an adequate amount of compensation to the victim’s family.
A four-year-girl raped in Ghaziabad in march. On 16 march, victim allgedy taken by neigbour to buy her chocolate. When didn’t return for a long time, her family start searching, after long search her father found the unconsious body of girl covered in blood. The family took the girl to two private hospital first was Khajan Singh Mannvi Health Care and second is St Joseph (Mariam) Hospital, where she was denied to get medical assistance. She was taken to a government hospital where doctor declared her dead.
Father filed a plea before Supreme Court, a daily wager seeking a investigation either by Special Investigation Team (SIT) or Crime Investigation Bureau (CBI). Court assigned SIT and issue notice to Goverment of Uttar Pradhesh, the Station House Officer (SHO) of the police station concerned, two private hospitals and to the eɛecutive magistrate.
Surya Kant told the hospital that “You ignored her because she was poor.” The bench also told the hospital to f=drop the name of doctor as they can’t even provide medical assistance to a bleeding girl and leave them dying herself. If the hospital was that concerning and they did not have the eÉ”uipents to save the girl they could have take her to another hospital and save her. Th victim’s father said that the girl was alive till 2 hours, if medical assistance provided to her she could be saved till now.
In the last hearing the court said that there is far beyond that mere compensation that need fiÉ›ing – accountability. Police misbehave with the victim’s family. The family neÉ›t day reached station to report FIR, instead to FIR and arresting the culprit police instead physically assaulted to the members of the family. NeÉ›t day after uproar police finally FIR was filed on 17 March and arrested the culprit on 18 March. The real surprise is that FIR did not include any mention of POSCO Act or Section 376 (Rape Punishment). Supreme Court has ordered to summon Commissioner over the insensitivity and indifference of the case and also summon investigation officer with case records.
Court held that hospital was negligent in their work and held that 2 private hospital is criminally negligent. Court ordered two private court to compensate the victim’s family accordingly. It does not set any amount of money, hospital is free to pay any reasonable amount to the family to ensure fairness. Although the compensation could not replace it with her daughter and court also made the hospital accountable and ask them to pay the amount.
Raped has become very normal these days, young girl widely are becoming part of this which is more shocking. Police authorities have one job to handle, to solve the issue of people and reduce crime arresting criminal but many are fails to do instead they become a part of evil and contributing in the evilness. FIR should have been lodged instantly and taking the cognizance of culprit instead it assaulted the family. Hospitals do not want to indulge themselves in any matter with relating to crime, so they denied to admit the girl and since she was poor hospital dare not to provide medical facilities to the baby girl instead let her dying. humanity is slowly dying from humans, CJI said that Doctors should drop their title as they are not making any difference, they did not provide medical assistance to the girl.
