New Delhi, Oct 20 : The Supreme Court has ruled today that a doctor can be prosecuted for causing death due to rash and negligent act if his patient dies after being administered wrong injections.

But the doctor cannot be prosecuted for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” which entails a higher punishment, a bench of Justices C K Thakker and D K Jain ruled.

The bench passed the ruling while partly allowing the appeal filed by a doctor who challenged the summons issued by a trial court for prosecuting him under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) in connection with the death of a patient.

New Delhi, Oct 20 : Law Minister H R Bhardwaj has said that he stood for the primacy of the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justices of High Courts in the appointment of judges.

“I am for restoration of primacy of the Chief Justice of India in the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of High Courts in the High Courts,” Bhardwaj said.

“There is no provision in the Constitution to bring in other people,” he added.

New Delhi - Russia and India Monday laid the groundwork for a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement, paving the way for the signing of the pact during Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's visit to New Delhi in December, officials and news reports said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held discussions with his counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, in the Indian capital, which focussed on the nuclear agreement, officials in the Indian foreign ministry said.

Under the bilateral nuclear cooperation pact, Russia would build four atomic reactors in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the IANS news agency reported, quoting Indian diplomatic sources.

New Delhi, Oct 20 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov today discussed the conduct of atomic trade and prospect of advancing bilateral cooperation in the field ahead of the maiden visit of President Dmitry Medvedev in December.

They also dicussed construction of reactors by Russia in India.

“We discussed prospects for future bilateral cooperation in the field,” Mukherjee told reporters here after 90 minutes talks with Lavrov.