The NCDRC asked three Kolkata doctors and the AMRI to share the compensation amount.

The deceased’s husband, however, claimed that the compensation amount, along with interest since 1998, should be 200 crore and moved the SC.

The apex court decided on his plea and enhanced the compensation to 5.96 crore.

The court said out of the total compensation amount, Dr Balram Prasad and Dr Sukumar Mukherjee will pay 10 lakh each and Dr Baidyanath Halder will have to pay 5 lakh to Saha within eight weeks.

The rest of the amount, along with the interest, will be paid by the hospital, the apex court said, adding that a compliance report be filed before it after payment of the compensation amount.

Saha got the Supreme Court court order after a long and seemingly impossible legal battle for more than a decade-and-a-half.

Before this, the Supreme Court had ordered a record 1 crore compensation to be paid to a Bangalore-based software engineer, Prashant Dhananka.

Dhananka was a final year engineering student in 1990, all of 21 years, when he went in for a regular chest biopsy at Hyderabad's Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS). He came out paralysed waist downwards.

The National Consumer Commission awarded him 15 lakh as compensation in 1993. The software engineer challenged it in the Supreme Court, demanding that he should be paid 7 crore.

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