Despite waiting for almost 20 years, Central Railway employee Manjali Sinha is yet to get justice in a case of medical negligence that has left her daughter Nidhi with a paralysed arm. Four months after being ordered by the state consumer disputes redressal commission to pay up R31 lakh with interest as compensation to Sinha, the accused Ambedkar railway hospital has decided to approach the Supreme Court against the verdict.

The incident occurred in 1999, when a heavily pregnant Manjali, who was working as a senior clerk in CR, was admitted to the hospital to deliver her second child. She was informed that the birth would be delayed as the growth of the child was inadequate. She was treated for the same and on April 5, 1999, went into labour at 8:15 am.A caesarean section birth was planned by one Dr A Saxena. Sinha was taken to the operation theatre around 7 pm, but as the keys to the theatre keys were not available, she was taken back to the labour room, where she gave birth through normal delivery. Sinha was given episiotomy and forceps were used to take the baby out.