ORDER

Anupam Dasgupta, Presiding Member - This revision petition is from the order dated 4.7.2011 of the Karnataka State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Bangalore (in short, the State Commission ) dismissing revision petition No. 12 of 2011 filed by the petitioners. The said revision petition before the State Commission challenged the order dated 19.2.2011 of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Shimoga (in short, the District Forum ) on an interim application filed by the opposite parties (OPs who are the petitioners before us) in connection with consumer complaint No. 11 of 2011 filed by the respondent.

2. (i) In the said interim application, the OPs contended that the father of the complainant (H.B. Chandrappa) who was the patient alleging medical negligence against OPs had himself filed an earlier consumer complaint (No. 125 of 2010) before the District Forum through his son H.C. Eranna (the complainant in C.C. No. 12 of 2011) as the holder of Chandrappa's power of attorney. The previous complaint alleged medical negligence/deficiency in service against the same OPs in treating the said Chandrappa for cancer of his right jaw. However, during the pendency of the