Friday, May 15, 2009

Hospital asked to pay Rs one cr to Infosys engineer

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Nizam’s Medical Institute of Hyderabad to pay Rs one-crore compensation to a software engineer who suffered permanent disability because of negligence by government-owned institute’s staff.

A bench of Justice B N Agrawal ordered the compensation for Prashanth S Dhananka, an Infosys employee working in Bangalore, who was paralysed waist downwards after a surgery at the institute.

The court increased the compensation to Rs one crore from Rs 15 lakh, which was awarded by the Andhra Pradesh High Court. Dhananka suffered permanent disability, rendering him incapable of all normal chores after the surgery.

(With inputs from IANS and PTI. )

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