ORDER

Anupam Dasgupta, Member - This appeal against the order dated 27.3.2002 of the Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Union Territory, Chandigarh (in short, the State Commission ) in complaint case No. 6 of 2001 has been filed by the complainant (Rajinder Singh Dogra). By this order, the State Commission dismissed the complaint holding that the complainant had failed to prove his allegations of medical negligence, carelessness and deficiency in service on the part of the opposite party (OP-Dr. P.N. Gupta) in the treatment of his wife (Smt. Reeta Dogra). For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their status before the State Commission.

2. The undisputed facts are that the complainant's wife (Reeta) suffered from abdominal pain for some time. On ultrasonography of the abdomen, she was diagnosed with stones in her gall bladder. The complainant and his wife approached the OP at his P.N. Urology and Surgical Centre (hereafter, Centre ) for consultation on this problem. The OP advised surgery and fixed it for 11.9.2000. Some necessary preliminary tests were also advised. The surgery was conducted on 11.9.2000 as scheduled and the patient was discharged the ver