Haridasan Pillai VS Nuclear Power Corporation of India

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BINOY KUMAR
Haridasan Pillai – Appellant
Versus
Nuclear Power Corporation of India – Respondent

Counsel for the Parties:
For the Appellants:Ms. Lakshmi N. Kaimal and Mr. Ranjith B. Marar, Advocates
For the Respondents:Mr. Sumit Goel, Ms. Pratyusha Priyadarshini and Ms. Garima Khanna, Advocates

ORDER

This First Appeal has been filed by the Appellants - Haridasan Pillai & his wife - Chandrika H. Pillai (in short, the “Complainants”) against the Respondents – Tarapur Atomic Power Station Hospital (TAPS Hospital), its Medical Superintendent and two Doctors (in short, the Opposite Parties Nos. 1 to 4 respectively), challenging the impugned Order dated 23.06.2014 passed by the Maharashtra, State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Mumbai (in short, the “State Commission”) in CC/99/455, whereby the Complaint filed by the Complainants was dismissed.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on the complaint of high fever of their only son – Master Harish (since deceased) (in short, the “patient”), his parents / Complainants, on 12.07.1998 at 8.15pm, got him admitted in TAPS Hospital - Opposite Party No. 1, under C.H.S. facility, where he was checked by the duty doctor and blood and urine samples taken for investigation. It was alleged that noticing no improvement, the Complainants kept requesting Dr. Sachdev – the Opposite Party No. 3 as well as the Hospital Superintendent – the Opposite Party No. 2 to refer the patient to BARC Trombay Hospital, but it was refused, even though t