Judgment :-

Chelameswar, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal arises out of an order dated 28th October 2010 in Criminal Petition No.6506 of 2007 of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

3. The aforementioned criminal petition was filed praying that the proceedings initiated against the appellant herein in C.C. No.600 of 2006 on the file of the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad for the offence punishable under section 304A IPC be quashed. The said petition along with another similar petition by one of the co-accused was heard and disposed of by a common order (order in appeal).

4. While the petition filed by the appellant herein was dismissed by the High Court, the other petition of the co-accused was allowed.

5. The appellant is a cardiologist. The husband of the first respondent (one Divakar) approached the appellant herein, complaining of a pain in the chest on 22.04.2002. Divakar was admitted in the hospital where the appellant was working and kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Thereafter, the appellant informed the first respondent that Divakar had suffered a mild heart attack. On 23.04.2002, an angiogram was conducted which showed three blocks in the vessels ca