Mr. Justice K.K. Srivastava, President—This is an appeal filed against order dated 2.6.2003 passed by District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-I, U.T., Chandigarh [for short hereinafter referred to as the District Forum] in Complaint Case No. 1199 of 1998, Jagtar Singh v. P.G.I., Chandigarh and 2 Others. The District Forum has dismissed the complaint on the ground that the appellant/complainant has not been able to prove medical negligence on the part of O.Ps. in the treatment of his own son Shri Rakesh Kumar (since deceased). The appellant filed the complaint in the District Forum alleged, inter alia, as under:

2. Shri Rakesh Kumar, since deceased, was suffering from fever and he was taken by the appellant to Barnala Nursing Home, Cheeka in Kaithal District in the State of Haryana and there he was examined by Dr. Ranbir Bansal at a Nursing Home who prescribed some medicines and diagnosed that Shri Rakesh Kumar was suffering from dog bite/Rabies. Dr. Ranbir Bansal referred the son of the appellant to Rajindra Hospital at Patiala where doctors did not handle the case due to lack of facilities in the hospital. The appellant, thereafter, brought his son Shri Rakesh Kumar in the