Lucknow, Aug 22 (Agencies): Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary on Tuesday submitted a report to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the deaths of 72 children earlier in August due to alleged disruption in oxygen supply at a hospital in Gorakhpur.

Adityanath has directed registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against principal of Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College and five others in the incident.

Sources said that the chief minister directed registration of cases against the officials, who were found guilty by the committee. These officials might be booked under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC.

The committee, in its report, has pointed out serious irregularities and laxity on the part of the college authorities and doctors and recommended stern action against them, sources added.

While the content of the report was not made public, it is admitted that the oxygen supply had been disrupted on August 10 and 11 in the hospital.

An official probe into the death of 30 children owing to alleged shortage of oxygen at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur has found that laxity on the part of the doctors and hospital authorities was behind the tragedy.

Earlier also a probe, which was conducted by the district magistrate of Gorakhpur, had said that the lives of the children could have been saved if the doctors been more careful and there was a better coordination among them.

The DM report had also found fault with the suspended principal of the medical college. It had also admitted that the stock of liquid oxygen had been alarmingly low for the past couple of days before the tragedy.