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Evidence - Summary proceedings - Dr. or the witness from the Hospital not
produced – Recording of previous history in prescription slip and the discharge
summary - Contention that State Commission has committed a grave error in
relying upon the prescription slip of Dr. Prahlad Garg and Discharge Summary of
City Hospital as those documents have not been proved by the primary evidence
i.e. by examining Dr. Prahlad Garg or the witness from the City Hospital - We
do not find merit in this contention for the reason that proceedings before the
consumer fora are summary proceedings in which strict technical rules of proce-
dure and evidence are not applicable - Otherwise also, the petitioner has not
shown anything on the record that he in his evidence denied correctness of pre-
scription slip and the discharge summary - It is also argued by learned counsel
for the petitioner that recording of previous history of Diabetes Mellitus does not
mean that aforesaid opinion was given by the petitioner or that he was aware of
his ailment - We do not find merit in this contention - Both doctor Prahlad Garg
and the concerned doctor of City Hospital have recorded about the previous his-
tory of Diabetes Mellitus of the patient - This history obviously must have been
given by the petitioner himself or his friend / relative, who took him to the doctor
concerned or the hospital - Therefore, there is no reason to suspect that con-
cerned doctors of their own have recorded the previous history – Claim rightly
repudiated.

NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION
NEW DELHI

REVISION PETITION NO. 677 OF 2017

(Against the Order dated 08/12/2016 in Appeal No. 1100/2011 of the State Com-
mission Uttar Pradesh)
1. PANKAJ PARASHAR
S/O. LT. ASHWANI KUMAR PARASHAR,
R/O. 48/12, LODHI COLONY, FIROZABAD
POLICE STATION, LINE PAR,
DISTRICT-FIROZABAD
UTTAR PRADESH ...........Petitioner(s)

Versus
1. ICICI PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE
CO. LTD.
THROUGH BRANCH MANAGER,BRANCH
OFFICE CHINGAMAL KA BAGH,
FIROZABAD
UTTAR PRADESH ...........Respondent(s)

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