Summary:
A fresh petition was filed with the state consumer court in 1998, where Rs 2 lakh compensation was awarded. The family went back to the hospital five days later, reporting that the dog had disappeared from the locality. On Wednesday, the consumer court cited this report while awarding the compensation. After consulting legal experts, it filed another petition with the state consumer court in 2012, this time citing a 1995 Supreme Court observation that “free service would also be a service and the recipient a consumer”. They moved the Hooghly Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum days after the boy’s death..