The State has preferred this appeal against the acquittal of the four respondents by the Judicial First-Class Magistrate, Asifabad of the charges framed against them under section 304-A, Indian Penal Code. The case against the four respondents (accused) is this: They are employed in the health centre, Collieries Hospital at Bellampalli. Accused No. 1 was the Sanitary Inspector. Accused No. 3 was a vaccinator and accused No. 4 was compounder-cum-store-keeper in the Collieries Hospital. It was one of the duties of accused No. 4 to receive stocks of medicine, maintain the stock register and disburse the medicines as and when indented by the concerned officers and make relevant entries in the stock register. It was the main function of accused 1 to 3 to conduct vaccinations with due diligence and care. On 21st February, 1966, the Sanitary Inspector (accused No. 1) received vials of triple antigen vaccine from the compounder (accused No. 4) for vaccinating 105 school children of the primary school, Hanuman Basti, a part of Bellampalli. Seventy vials of triple antigen were indented by accused No. 1 through accused No. 3’, the vaccinator. Accused No. 4 while issuing triple anti