Public prosecutor Saswata Gopal Mukherjee submitted before the court that he would come back with a plausible plan for scaling down the number of witnesses and inform the court about it on the next date of hearing on May 18.
Mukherjee submitted during the proceedings earlier this week that the prosecution was ready to hold day-to-day trial if the high court passed directions asking the trial court to make such arrangement.
Opposing the prayer of nonagenarian Chhetri, who was one of the directors of AMRI Hospital at the time of the fire incident, Mukherjee submitted that the trial in the case had already began.
At this, Justice Bagchi said that only one witness had been examined by the prosecution in the trial court.
