Tripura High Court: A writ petition for the claim of compensation in a medical negligence case was filed before a Single Judge Bench comprising of Ajay Rastogi, CJ.
Facts of the case are that the petitioner is the father of the deceased child who incurred a head injury. The child was shifted immediately to a hospital but after three days after the accident, he was moved to AGMC & G.B.P. Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Petitioner alleged medical negligence in criminal complaint after which FIR was registered. For purpose of examining the same, a committee was constituted by the order of Director of Health Services. The report of committee examined the matter and concluded that treatment given to the patient was in accordance with the existing protocol and no negligence was found on part of the doctors involved in the treatment of deceased.
The High Court was of the view that under limited scope of judicial review under Article 226 of the Constitution of India it is not possible to examine the allegation of medical negligence as the parties have not yet provided evidence in respect of their respective claims. Therefore, Court observed the quantification of compensation to be out of their scope due to the above reasons and the writ petition was dismissed. [Krishna Sarkar v. Government of Tripura,2018 SCC OnLine Tri 209, Order dated 13-09-2018]
