Dr. Suresh Gupta vs. Government of N.C.T. of Delhi and another AIR 2004 SC 4091 Appeal (crl.) 778 of 2004

“To convict, therefore, a doctor, the prosecution has to come out with a case of high degree of negligence on the part of the doctor. Mere lack of proper care, precaution and attention or inadvertence might create civil liability but not a criminal one.”