Sunil Kumar Garg, President— This complaint under Section 12 of the CP Act, 1986, has been filed by the complainant against opposite parties before this Commission on 19.12.96 with a prayer that since the child of the complainant was born in the Hospital of opposite party No.2 and was under the treatment of opposite party No.1 and since he was not treated well by opposite parties when he remained admitted in their Hospital and because of medical negligence on their part, the child became disable permanently and for that a sum of Rs.18,00,000 and other charges were claimed as amount of compensation from the opposite parties.

2. The necessary facts may be summarised as follows:

That the wife of the complainant Smt. Kaushalya was pregnant and she was got registered for delivery in the Hospital of opposite party No.2 in the year 1993 and the registration number was 2064/93 and she was under the treatment of opposite party No.1 a Gynaecologist; thereafter when her delivery had become due on 17.1.94 and when she felt pain on 17.1.94 and, therefore, she was got admitted in the Hospital of opposite party No.2 where she had delivered a male child on 17.1.94 at 10.40 p.m. and at the