26 May,2024 08:06 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Forensic experts arrive to collect samples from site of the fire at the Baby Care Hospital in east Delhi. Pic/PTI
Police arrested the owner of the east Delhi children's hospital where a fire killed seven newborns, officials said on Sunday.
Dr Naveen Kichi had been on the run since the fire outbreak late on Saturday, they said.
Delhi Fire Services officials said a blaze erupted at the Baby Care New Born Hospital in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar area around 11:30 pm on Saturday and spread to two adjacent buildings.
Twelve newborns were rescued from the facility but seven of them died. Five babies are undergoing treatment at another hospital, they said.
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Delhi Police has booked him under sections 336 (act endangering life of personal safety of others) and 304A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC at Vivek Vihar police station.
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