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A. P. SAHI, BHARATKUMAR PANDYA
K. G. M. Hospital – Appellant
Versus
Sandeep Kaur – Respondent
ORDER
The respondents/complainants filed CC/4/2006, alleging medical negligence against the appellants in respect of an alleged negligent orthopaedic surgery that resulted in deformities and the State Commission taking notice of a handicap of 45% as well as reduction in the length of her left leg by 1.5 inches allowed the complaint awarding the amount of expenses incurred in the medical treatment of the patient and in addition thereto a sum of Rs.10,00,000/- for the reduction in the chances of the patient to settle in life and a further Rs.5,00,000/- as compensation for mental agony and physical harassment. This order was impugned by the complainants in FA/735/2017, alleging that the State Commission had awarded a lesser amount as claimed and therefore the same should be enhanced. The said appeal FA/735/2017 came to be dismissed on the ground of delay on 14.02.2023.
2. The present appeal has been preferred by the Hospital and the doctor assailing the same impugned order contending that the order of the State Commission is based on erroneous assumptions of fact and law and therefore the same deserves to be set aside. The respondents in this appeal had also been extended the aid of l
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