Mrs. Vineeta Rai, Member—This First Appeal has been filed by Dr.R.K. Sharma and Others (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Appellant’) being aggrieved by the order of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘State Commission’) in Complaint No.150/1997 wherein State Commission has directed the Appellant/doctor to pay Rs.1 lakh as a lump-sum compensation to Vinit Mehta, complainant before the State Commission and Respondent herein.

2. Respondent in response to an advertisement in some leading dailies given by the Appellant/doctor that he could increase the height through a famous Russian surgical method (for dwarfs, short-structured, limb length inequality, amputees, difficult fractures/non-unions etc., approached the Appellant/doctor and expressed his desire to increase his body height from 5’10” to 6 ft. Appellant/doctor immediately admitted him for an X-ray and charged him Rs.1,000/- as consultation fees and assured him that through this surgery, his height would be increased by minimum 4” to 5” inches. The cost of the operation would be Rs.1,50,000/- and within two to three months of the surgery, he would be able to walk normally