Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 462 · Decided 23 July 2020
Union of India & ANR. v. N. R. Srivasta & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 462 · [2020] 6 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2823/2020
- Decided
- 23 July 2020
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, INDU MALHOTRA, K.M. JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Consumer Protection Act Section 2(1)(o)
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986: s. 2(1)(o) - Medical negligence - Complaint - Against a private hospital and a Government hospital - District Consumer Forum dismissed the complaint against the private hospital while as against the Government hospital held that it was not was offered free of cost - State Consumer Commission held the private hospital guilty of negligence and directed it to pay compensation of Rs. 2 lakhs - As regards Government Hospital, State Commission held that complaint was not maintainable against it, but it was guilty of
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