TRICHY: The principal district judge court suspended the one-year jail term of two doctors and a staff of Joseph Eye Hospital in Trichy and released them on bail pending disposal of the appeal on Friday.
The three — director Dr C A Nelson Jesudasan, chief administrative officer Christopher Jesudasan, medical officer of Perambalur Dr B Ashok- of Joseph Eye Hospital in Trichy had been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Trichy on Wednesday in a case related to the loss of vision to 66 villagers in Villupuram district on July 20, 2008. The court acquitted three doctors and a lab technician from the case.
On hearing an appeal petition filed by the three, principal district judge (in-charge) R Poornima suspended the conviction of the three men and released them on bail on Friday. The appeal was pending before the court. The three were subsequently released from Trichy central prison on Friday.
Joseph Eye Hospital also went on strike on Saturday under the instruction of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Trichy chapter, which raised its concern about the insecurity of the doctors and the private hospitals.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Protection Centre, Trichy which took up vision loss case in support of the victims was planning to go for an appeal seeking increase in quantum of the sentence. Advocate S Vanchinathan told TOI, "We are discussing going for an appeal to increase the term of conviction and for sentence of imprisonment to those who were acquitted from the case, because all of them are responsible for the vision loss."
The three — director Dr C A Nelson Jesudasan, chief administrative officer Christopher Jesudasan, medical officer of Perambalur Dr B Ashok- of Joseph Eye Hospital in Trichy had been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Trichy on Wednesday in a case related to the loss of vision to 66 villagers in Villupuram district on July 20, 2008. The court acquitted three doctors and a lab technician from the case.
On hearing an appeal petition filed by the three, principal district judge (in-charge) R Poornima suspended the conviction of the three men and released them on bail on Friday. The appeal was pending before the court. The three were subsequently released from Trichy central prison on Friday.
Joseph Eye Hospital also went on strike on Saturday under the instruction of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Trichy chapter, which raised its concern about the insecurity of the doctors and the private hospitals.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Protection Centre, Trichy which took up vision loss case in support of the victims was planning to go for an appeal seeking increase in quantum of the sentence. Advocate S Vanchinathan told TOI, "We are discussing going for an appeal to increase the term of conviction and for sentence of imprisonment to those who were acquitted from the case, because all of them are responsible for the vision loss."
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