Following mid-day’s report yesterday about a 17-year-old in Kalyan who has been unable to walk properly ever since he underwent surgery to gain a few inches in height, the teenager’s mother has complained to the Sion Police, alleging that it was the doctor who bungled the six surgeries meant to increase her son’s height, leaving him crippled instead.

This paper carried a front-page report on 17-year-old Prem Patel, who got tired of taunts about his height (5’1”) and decided to opt for a limb lengthening surgery at Sion Hospital (Six ‘make me tall’ surgeries later, teen can now barely walk, August 17). On Monday, his mother Meena approached the Sion police with a letter of complaint against Dr Binoti Sheth, who carried out the treatment on Prem.