17 April,2011 06:00 AM IST | | Correspondents
Bandra's Lilavati Hospital managing trustee Niket Mehta sent a notice to the Union Bank of India (UBI) which holds the hospital's accounts, that he should be informed about any decision to freeze accounts of the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, and that the bank will be solely responsible if the action becomes a matter of life and death for any patient.
On Saturday, Mid day had reported that the hospital was likely to be forced to suspend functioning after UBI had threatened to freeze its accounts following the fact that the hospital had come under the scanner of the CBI and Directorate of Enforcement (ED) for alleged money laundering by its trustees.
In a notice issued to the trustees on April 9, the state-run bank had expressed concern at the gravity of allegations made before the Supreme Court (against the trustees) and the diverse and contradictory instructions given to them by two groups of trustees.
