Calcutta: The Justice Tapan Mukherjee Commission report on the fire tragedy at AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria, which had been handed over to Nabanna a year ago, was tabled in the Assembly on Wednesday.

"We are tabling the report and a memorandum of action taken in respect of the final report of the commission," the minister of state for health, Chandrima Bhattacharya, said while tabling the report.

A devastating fire that had broken out in Annexe I of the Dhakuria hospital on December 9, 2011, led to more than 90 deaths. The report of the Justice Tapan Mukherjee Commission, which was set up shortly after the tragedy, was sent to the state government in May 2017.

CPM legislator and the leader of the Left legislature party, Sujan Chakraborty, said: "Why this delay in tabling the judicial commission's report? Nabanna got it a year back but it has been made public only today. The government owes an answer to the Assembly on the delay."

Bhattacharya later told Metro: "There is no deadline for tabling the report of any inquiry commission in the Assembly. The state government was not sitting on the commission's report. We have already initiated legal actions in accordance with the recommendations of the report."

All 16 accused in the AMRI case have been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder (IPC Section 304) and attempt to commit culpable homicide (Section 308).

The first offence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and the second, a seven-year jail term.

They have also been charged with "negligent conduct with respect to fire" (Section 285) and "effect caused partly by act and partly by omission" (Section 36).

There are 453 witnesses, all of whom might have to be examined and cross-examined individually during the trial.

In the "memorandum of action taken", the government says an ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh was paid to the next of kin of each of 90 victims immediately after the tragedy.

The seven-point "memorandum of action taken" states that a special investigation team of the Calcutta police had filed chargesheets against the 16 accused, including 12 members of the board of directors of the AMRI Hospitals and the trial was on in the court of the additional district judge in Alipore.