Chandigarh, Sept. 13 -- The Supreme Court (SC) has directed a refund of Rs.10 lakh to a doctor and others, who were penalised by a consumer panel, in an alleged case of medical negligence filed by a Chandigarh resident in 2006.

The SC division bench of justice Sanjay Kumar and justice Satish Chandra Sharma overturned a 2012 judgment of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), Delhi, observing that the commission transgressed its jurisdiction in building a "new case for the complainants, contrary to their pleadings".

"The impugned was order passed by the NCDRC, confirming the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC)'s judgment on the new grounds made out by it, therefore, cannot be sustained," it said ordering...