New Delhi: Granting relief to a private hospital and its senior gynaecologist, the Delhi High Court recently quashed an FIR registered against them for allegedly leaving a cotton mop inside the abdomen of a patient during her caesarean section surgery.

Relying on the opinion by the Disciplinary Committee of the Delhi Medical Council in this regard, the HC bench comprising Justice Amit Mahajan observed that "the incident was unintentional and due oversight, bereft of the necessary mens rea and such degree of rashness to attract the rigours of a criminal trial."

The bench opined that the matter could have, at best, delineated a civil liability, and accordingly, quashed the FIR registered against the doctor and the hospital, after noting that the matter had been amicably settled betwe

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