July 3, 2026 : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report alleging that a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler lost his eyesight due to medical negligence at the Civil Hospital in Banda, located in Madhya Read more…
News Citation : 2026 LN (HC) 381 The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the conviction of a man who falsely posed as a qualified medical practitioner and treated patients using forged credentials, holding him criminally liable for the death of Read more…
May 22, 2026 : The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a surgeon guilty of gross medical negligence for mistakenly removing a woman’s healthy left kidney instead of her diseased right kidney, an error that ultimately led to Read more…
March 13, 2026 : The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Mumbai, has held an ophthalmic surgeon liable for deficiency in service for failing to obtain proper and informed consent before performing cataract surgery on a patient who subsequently lost Read more…
February 25, 2026 : The Uttarakhand State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has dismissed an appeal alleging medical negligence in a case involving the death of a six-month-old fetus, holding that the complainants failed to place any substantive medical evidence on Read more…
January 31, 2026 : The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held that prescribing allopathic medicines without a recognised medical qualification amounts to deficiency in service and negligence by operation of law. Setting aside the orders of the fora below, Read more…
DDCDRC (Central), December 18, 2025 : The Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (Central) has held a treating doctor and a private nursing home guilty of medical negligence and deficiency in service, finding that their collective failure resulted in permanent Read more…