Arijit Pasayat, J.—Challenge in this appeal is to the order dated 25th August, 1999 passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi (in short ‘the Commission’). The appellant made a claim for compensation alleging that on the ground of medical negligence on the part of the respondents, he had suffered untold miseries and had spent a huge amount of money to get cured without any avail.

2. The background facts disclosed in the complaint were to the effect that the appellant visited the respondent No. 1-hospital as he was having urinary trouble. The respondent No. 2 with his team examined the complainant and advised him to undergo prostate operation. The complainant was admitted in the hospital on 10.1.1990 and was operated by respondent No. 2 on 11.1.1990. He was discharged from the hospital on 15.1.1990. At the time of discharge, he was advised to take some medicines and was told that he would be perfectly normal within one or two months. The complainant returned to his native place, i.e. Muzaffarnagar and duly followed the advice given and the treatments prescribed. Instead of getting relief, he started feeling acute pain in the thigh muscles and bac