Is it a chai stain, or not? That's the question authorities at Khar's Hinduja Hospital and the relatives of a patient are arguing over after a flask that carried soup for the patient was found to be allegedly rusty on the inside. The issue came to light after Surgitika Chhabra, a resident of Vile Parle, filed a police complaint against the hospital for allegedly serving soup to her father, Jasvinder Singh, 70, in a corroded iron flask. Singh was being treated for cancer at the hospital.

The reddish-brown discolouring at the bottom of the flask