Thiru Justice K. Sampath, President—The complainant in COP No. 32/96 on the file of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Tiruvannamalai, is the appellant herein. Her case was as follows : On 25.9.1993 at 11 a.m. she got treated for her headache by the opposite party, a practising Homoeopathy Doctor at Thellar and in the presence of her father. During the treatment, the opposite party took a syringe and needle which were kept on the table, filled the syringe with Tetramycin and injected on her left hand. He also gave some tablets after getting a fee of Rs. 9. Within an hour she felt that she could not lift her hand, she developed intolerable pain and on the same day evening she came again to the opposite party complaining of pain; the opposite party told her that the pain would subside in due course. Believing that, she bore it. But the pain did not subside. She went again to the opposite party. There was no relief even then. Therefore, she went to Dr. Basheer Ahmed who referred her to Dr. Nandha Kumar and Dr. S.S.K. Ayyar. She suffered mental torture and agony due to the negligence of the opposite party in administering injection. The complaint came to be filed clai