Overview
- The Supreme Court recorded on Friday, August 7, 2026, that St. Joseph Mariam Hospital agreed to pay ₹10 lakh and Khajan Singh Mannvi Health Care agreed to pay ₹2 lakh to the victim’s family, with amounts due within four weeks.
- A court-appointed Special Investigation Team found the four-year-old was alive for almost five hours after the March 16 attack and concluded delays and denial of emergency treatment by the two private hospitals contributed to her death.
- Counsel for the hospitals sought to treat the payments as voluntary contributions and asked the court to consider this fact when deciding on criminal liability; the bench said it will address that request in its final orders.
- The bench sharply criticised Ghaziabad police for delayed and insensitive action in registering the POCSO offence, while the Uttar Pradesh government told the court the POCSO FIR was registered within 24 hours of the SIT recommendation and that disciplinary proceedings have begun.
- The court said it will frame broad guidelines addressing emergency hospital duties, police handling of grave-offence victims, training, accountability and procedural fixes such as timely reporting and video-recording of statements, a move that could change how hospitals and police respond to similar cases nationwide.