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UP ordered to pay 3 lakh for death of undertrial

Suresh Jaiswal died for want of proper medical treatment on May 13, 2007

GN Bureau | April 28, 2010

The national human rights commission (NHRC) has ordered a relief of Rs 3 lakh to the family of Suresh Jaiswal, an undertrial prisoner in Mirzapur District Jail in Uttar Pradesh who died for want of proper medical treatment on May 13, 2007, a report in The Hindu said.

The UP government has been directed to send compliance report along with proof of payment and the action taken report against the “negligent” medical officers of the jail and the district hospitals who treated the inmate.

The commission rejected the state government's contention that there was no medical negligence on the part of the jail doctors and hence the grant of monetary relief was not justified.

Suresh was lodged in jail on August 2, 2004, and died in Shiv Prasad Gupta Hospital, Varanasi, following reference by the Mirzapur District Hospital.

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