The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear in April petitions filed by AMRI Hospitals and three doctors against a Rs 1.7-crore compensation awarded to doctor Kunal Saha in a negligence case relating to his wife’s death in 1998.

The two-judge bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and J.S. Khehar, however, refused to stay the October 21, 2011, order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission directing AMRI and the doctors — Sukumar Mukherjee, B.N. Halder and Balaram Prasad — to pay the amount.

Saha’s wife, Anuradha, had died of a steroid overdose. The apex court, which dropped the criminal negligence charge against the doctors, had in June 2006 asked the commission to compute the compensation within six months.

On October 21, 2011, the commission fixed the compensation at Rs 1.7 crore.

AMRI and the doctors appealed in the Supreme Court against the commission’s order.

Saha, who had sought Rs 97 crore plus interest, also appealed, seeking to enhance the compensation.