JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. to call for the records relating to CC No.1008 of 2017 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Alandur, Chennai and quash the complaint filed against the petitioners.)

1. These Criminal Original Petitions have been filed to quash the criminal proceedings initiated by the Respondent in C.C.Nos.1088 to 1014 and 1022 of 2017 for the offence under Section 304-A of IPC, pending on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Alandur.

2. The brief back grounds of the private complaints are as follows:

2.a. Around November 2015 several patients were admitted in the ICU which was in the lower elevation of the Respondents hospital premises. On 01.12.2015 due to heavy rain fall and release of water in Adyar River the compound wall behind the International Block was collapsed and the water entered into the hospital premises by flooding the E.B.Main Room which was abetting the river bank, Generator Room, Oxygen Cylinder Storage Room and the Medical Block which was also in the basement area. As a result, 18 of the patients admitted in the hospital died due to lack of ventilation, suffocation, lack of oxygen etc., Originally the