Court seeks compromise papers signed in Nashwa death case.

KARACHI -- A district court has directed the relevant parties to submit the out-of-court compromise signed between the parties in a case pertaining to the death of a nine-month-old girl, Nashwa, allegedly after wrong treatment at a private hospital.

Two medical staffers have been charged with improperly treating the child at the Darul Sehat Hospital on April 7 that paralysed her and led to her death.

The matter came up before district and sessions' judge (East) Khalid Hussain Shahani, when the counsel for the parties informed that their clients had already reached an out-of-court settlement.

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The judge directed the investigating officer of the case and the counsel for the parties to submit such an agreement reportedly reached and signed between their clients and fixed the matter on Nov 2.

The court has already accepted acquittal applications filed by the hospital's owner and chairman Amir Waliuddin Chishti, vice-chairman Syed Ali Farhan and executive director Shahzad Alam and exonerated them of the charges of negligence that led to the death of the child 'in the light of the compromise between the parties and the investigation report'.

In May, the IO had filed an investigation report mentioning that the complainant, the father of the deceased child, had signed a compromise with other suspects agreeing to withdraw the case under certain conditions.

In his affidavit submitted to the judicial magistrate concerned, the father had mentioned that he and other family members had pardoned all the nominated key administration and medical staffers without accepting any compensation.

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