BAKTHAVATSALAM J.

The prayer in this writ petition is as follows : ... to issue a writ of prohibition or any other appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature of a writ, prohibiting the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Madras, the second respondent herein, from proceeding with the complaint given by the third respondent herein in O. P. No. 50 of 1992 taken on its file and pass.

The petitioner, who is a medical practitioner has come before this court with this writ petition, when the third respondent filed O. P. No. 50 of 1992 before the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. During June, 1988, it seems that the wife of the third respondent, Smt. Indira, was admitted in the Murari Hospital with labour pain. The Murari Hospital, where the petitioner was working, was run by a society registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. Since the wife of the third respondent did not deliver till late in the evening (on June 17, 1988), the petitioner thought of applying forceps and the child was delivered at 9.50 p.m. by the use of forceps. It was then found out that the child had its left eye lying outside. It seems that the petitioner immedi