KUNAL SAHA Vs. SUKUMAR MUKHERJEE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) is a rare and deadly disease. It is an extoliative dermatological disorder of unknown cause. A patient with TEN loses epidermis in sheet-like fashion leaving extensive areas or denuded dermis that must be treated like a larze, superficial, paxfial-thickness burn wound. The incidence of TEN has been reported at 1 to 1.3 per million per year. The female-male ratio is 3:2. TEN accounts for nearly 1% of drug reactions that require hospitalization. TEN has a mortality rate of 25 to 70%.

(2.) Before we deal with the present proceedings, it is desirable, nay necessary, to refer in some details, the background pursuant to which this Commission is seized of the present proceedings for the second time.

(3.) After the remand of the matter to this Commission, several important developments have taken place which we would like to recapitulate.