Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 300 · Decided 22 April 2014
Ashish Kumar Mazumdar v. Aishi Ram Batra Charitable Hospital Trust & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 300 · [2014] 5 S.C.R. 519
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4010/2010
- Decided
- 22 April 2014
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI, N.V. RAMANA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
A B Medical Negligence - Principle of res ipsa /oquitur - C Applicability of - Plaintiff admitted as indoor patient in the Hospital and suffering with high fever and in delirious state - Found lying below the window of his hospital room with multiple fractures and a paraplegic i.e. 100% disabled below the waist - Suit for damages on the D ground that absence of due and reasonable care on the part of the hospital authorities led to the incident disabling the plaintiff for rest of his life .:... Courts b.elow applied the principle of res ipsa loquitur to cast
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