Mukesh Joshi VS Manu Sharma

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BINOY KUMAR
Mukesh Joshi – Appellant
Versus
Manu Sharma – Respondent

Advocates:
Counsel for the Parties:
In F.A. No. 417/2021
For the Appellants:Mr. K. G. Sharma, Advocate
For the Respondent Nos.1 and 2:Ms. Suchi Singh, Advocate
For the Respondent No.3: Ex-parte vide Order dated 20.02.2023
For the Respondent Nos.4 to 8:Mr. Amandeep Singh, Advocate
In F.A. No. 912/2021
For the Appellant:Mr. Amandeep Singh, Advocate
For the Respondent Nos.1 and 2:Ms. Suchi Singh, Advocate
For the Respondents No.3 to 5 and 7:Mr. K. G. Sharma, Advocate
For the Respondent No.6: Ex-parte vide Order dated 20.02.2023

ORDER

These two Appeals have been filed by four Doctors – Dr. Mukesh Joshi & Ors. (hereinafter referred to as, the ‘Opposite Parties Nos. 2 to 5’) and the Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as, the ‘Opposite Parties Nos. 6 to 10’) respectively against the same impugned Order dated 16.04.2021 passed by the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Punjab, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as the “State Commission”) in MA No. 2072 & 2073 of 2020 in CC No. 886 of 2018, whereby the Complaint filed by the Complainants was partly allowed with a total compensation of Rs. 33 lakh and Rs. 5,000/- towards litigation costs to be paid by the Appellants to the Complainants.

2. Brief facts of the case are that, on the complaint of pain in left knee of their daughter - Ms. Jiya Sharma (hereinafter referred to as, ‘the patient’), her parents / Respondents Nos. 1 & 2 (hereinafter referred to as, the ‘Complainants’), on 10.05.2017, took her to Dr. Kulwant Singh (hereinafter referred to as, the ‘Opposite Party No. 1’) on 12.05.2017, who, after getting some tests conducted, advised the Complainants to visit ‘Joshi Super Specialty and Multispecialty Hospital’ at Jalandhar. On 16

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