Smt. Rachna, Presiding Member — Complainant’s wife Smt. Subhadra Kumari Gupta, aged about 56 years, was admitted at Gandhi Memorial & Associated Hospitals, Lucknow (now known as King George’s Medical University) on 27.11.1996 with the complaint of pain in abdomen region. After investigations, she was diagnosed as suffering from the disease of obstructed “umbilical hernia” and was advised to undergo operation by Dr. L. Kakkar. Operation was performed on 21.12.1996 in KGMU in which the surgeon suspected cancer and therefore sent the specimen of intra abdominal mass with multiple lymphnode nodules for biopsy/investigation of cancer to the opposite parties’ pathology. The opposite party charged Rs. 300/- as fee from the complainant for the above test. The opposite party gave their investigation report on 25.12.1996 to the complainant which disclosed “CALCIFIED CASEOUS NECROTIC NODULES” According to the complainant the disease was declared in its general name as Abdominal Tuberculosis. Believing in the aforesaid report the doctor started the treatment for the disease of abdominal tuberculosis. The concerned doctor discharged the complainant’s wife from KGMU on 1.1.1997 with the