Couple compensated Rs 1 lakh for failed sterilisation

A Jaisalmer court has asked the Rajasthan government to pay a compensation of Rs one lakh to a couple who had a child two years after both of them underwent sterilisation at a medical camp.

District and Sessions Court Judge S R Meghvanshi ordered that Ansuia Rathore and her husband be paid compensation for faulty tubectomy and vasectomy operations respectively.

The couple underwent sterilisation at a medical camp in 1999. They filed a case against the government after Ansuia delivered a child in 2001.

The court directed the Medical and Health Department (family welfare) which organised the camp, to also pay 6 per cent interest on the compensation amount to the complainants from 2001.