India, May 7 -- A 67-year-old Navi Mumbai-based businessman, Rajendra Hardayal Gupta, has approached the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) and Vashi police, alleging that he permanently lost vision in his left eye after ophthalmologists Dr Chandan Pandit and Dr DV Pandit - a father-son duo - performed cataract surgery on both his eyes. The doctors overlooked Gupta's diabetic condition and bypassed key pre-operative safeguards which caused the vision loss, Gupta has alleged.

The businessman first consulted the doctors in December 2024. Despite disclosing his uncontrolled diabetes, he was pressured to undergo cataract surgery on his right eye, he told Hindustan Times.

"I was worried about the risks. But they kept saying, 'We've done surge...