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AGENCIES / Lucknow
After spending more than seven months in jail, Dr Kafeel Khan, an accused in the death of dozens of children at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur last year, was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court today.
The single bench of Justice Yashwant Verma while granting bail said since the chargesheet has already been filed in the case there was no need of custody. Dr Khan’s family had applied for bail on six different occasions in the past seven months. Gorakhpur Police have already dropped charges of corruption and private practice against Kafeel, who is one of the nine accused in the BRD Medical College case that left many dead allegedly due to oxygen shortage in the children’s ward.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi last week, Dr Shabista Khan, the wife of Dr Kafeel Khan, alleged that the prison authorities were not giving proper medical care to her husband. Citing her husband’s ailing health, Dr Shabista urged the government to consider his deteriorating condition as an emergency and grant him bail on medical grounds.news18