Allahabad HC seeks UP govt's response on Gorakhpur deaths

The Allahabad High Court directed the UP government and the state's director general of medical education to file a detailed counter affidavit within six weeks on a PIL on the death of children in a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur.

The Lucknow bench of the high court fixed



October 9 as the next date of hearing.

The bench of justices Vikram Nath and Daya Shankar Tiwari passed the order after hearing the activist, who filed the PIL, Advocate General Raghavendra Pratap Singh and Medical Education Counsel Sanjay Bhasin.