Mr. Justice P. Ramakrishnam Raju, President—The facts as emerge from a reading of the complaint are that the complainant who is a tractor mechanic, Machilipatnam sustained injury to his left leg in a road accident on 4.8.1995 approached the opposite party Orthopaedic Surgeon, hereinafter called ‘the doctor’. On examination the doctor diagnosed the problem as fracture of Tibial Plethora with an open wound. He applied Plaster of Paris (POP) on open wound which is opposed to all medical practices, as a result of which the complainant suffered swelling over his left thigh, knee, leg along with tenderness with multiple blisters around the leg, loss of sensation from middle 1/3rd and finally the leg was amputated making him cripple for the rest of his life. The complainant had to suffer this disability at the age of 28 years on account of the careless treatment given by the doctor and he had to incur an expenditure of Rs. 50,000/- for the treatment at NIMS, Hyderabad, consequently he had to give up his lucrative business of tractor mechanism earning Rs. 3,000/- to Rs. 4,000/- a month. Hence he claims a compensation of Rs. 6 lakhs towards loss of earnings, Rs. 1 lakh for mental agony