Mr. Ratan Prakash, Member—This order disposes of a complaint which has been filed by one Sh. Lallu Ram Meena husband of Smt. Kaushalya against Dr. S. Mathur and another to claim an amount of Rs. 19,31,500/- as compensation for negligence and causing irreparable mental handicap to a child delivered by Smt. Kaushalya on 17.1.1994.

2. Facts as stated by the complainant are that he admitted his wife Smt. Kaushalya in the hospital of opposite party No. 2 on 17.1.1994 having labour pains. Smt. Kaushalya gave birth to a male child on 17.1.1994 at 10.40 p.m. the child weighed 3 kg. and both the mother and the child were under treatment in the hospital of opposite party No. 2 where opposite party No. 1 Dr. S. Mathur attended and treated her till they were discharged from the hospital on 21.1.1994. The complainant alleged that though the child suffered with jaundice right from the time of its birth, the mother and the child were discharged on 21.1.1994 by the opposite parties assuming them that both of them are fit to be discharged. It is further the case of the complainant that immediately reaching the home after two or three hours after the condition of the child became serious. They b