[Bhubaneswar] Trustee Manoj Ranjan Surrenders:Hospital Inferno
Manoj Ranjan Nayak, the chairman of Sikshya O Anusandhan Charitable Trust that runs the Sum Hospital 21 people were killed in a fire mishap
With the arrest of Nayak, the number of those held in connection with the fire tragedy now stands at five.
As per,Commissioner of Police, Y B Khurania .”Manoj Nayak surrenders at Khandagiri Police Station. He is arrested and under interrogation,”
Last evening the commissinorate of Police had issued a Look Out Circular in the name of Nayak and Saswati Das, both trustees of the charitable trust.
The police issued LOC after Union Health Minister J P Nadda made it clear to the state government that persons responsible for the fire tragedy should not not go Scot free.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had also assured the state that all the guilty persons would be taken to task.
Two days ago, the police had arrested four senior officials including the medical superintendent of Sum Hospital Pushparaj Samantasinghar.
The four officials were arrested on the basis of an FIR lodged by the state government’s fire service department. A case was registered against the authorities of Sum Hospital which has been accused of overlooking a 2013 advisory of state government to improve its firefighting mechanism. The hospital does not possess a fire safety certificate.