SURESH YALLAPPA PATIL Vs. GENERAL MANAGER KSRTC

JUDGEMENT

(1.) , J.

(2.) LEAVE granted.

(3.) ON 1.04.1994 at about 6.30 p.m. while the appellant was standing near the Kondaskoppa cross on Pune-Bangalore road waiting for a vehicle for transporting potatoes to Belgaum a KSRTC bus belonging to the respondent corporation came in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against the appellant as a result of which the appellant sustained grievous injuries. His right foot was crushed. He was shifted to district hospital Belgaum where he was an indoor patient for 6 days. Thereafter, he was removed to a private hospital where he was an indoor patient for 40 days. In the private hospital skin grafting was done for the second time by an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Dinesh Kale, PW5.