The West Bengal government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the fire at the AMRI Hospital in Kolkata. This was disclosed by State Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata last night. She said, the police investigation will continue simultaneously.

West Bengal government has also formed a five-member committee to audit the fires safety measures of hospitals, nursing homes, installations, hotels and high-rise buildings. The death toll in the incident has risen to 91 with one more patient succumbing to injuries yesterday.

A state Forensic Research Laboratory team will today visit the hospital basement, where the fire is believed to have originated during wee hours on Friday. The team was unable to begin investigations yesterday because of water-logging there caused by fire-fighting operations.

Meanwhile, six directors of the super-speciality hospital were remanded to 10-days police custody by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of the Alipur court yesterday.

The six directors – R S Goenka, S K Todi, Prashant Goenka, Manish Goenka, Ravi Todi and Dayanand Agarwal, have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and negligence.

The magistrate also directed the police to produce the seventh director R S Agarwal before the court at the earliest. Agarwal has been admitted to a hospital in Kolkata.

Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, who appeared as Special Public Prosecutor, accused the hospital management of flouting all safety norms, keeping the fire alarms switched off and that there were no emergency exits.

Two blocks of the private hospital were sealed yesterday by city civic authorities. The licence of the AMRI hospital has already been cancelled.