source:times of india on line.

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For more than two decades PC Singhi battled cancer, the best prosecutors in the country and a frustratingly slow judiciary to seek justice for his wronged, dead wife.

For the first time in 24 years, 83-year-old Padam Chandra Singhi slept soundly last week. The ghosts of injustice have stopped tormenting him and his wife, Leela, is finally at rest. In acquiring the historic conviction of senior cancer surgeon Praful Desai for medical negligence on July 5, this retired IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre has set a new benchmark of perseverance.

This angry old man has redefined medical jurisprudence. Medical negligence cases, usually, are difficult to prove, given the mostly inconclusive nature of evidence and the improbability of getting a doctor to testify against another.