A doctor has been asked to pay Rs.5 lakh compensation by Delhi’s top consumer court for botching up a woman’s abortion not once but twice in 1997 leading to severe medical complications and her uterus being removed. Kusum Pahwa a resident of west Delhi alleged that she not only suffered mental agony due to the medical negligence in the MTP (medical termination of pregnancy) operation and the follow-up procedure in 1997 causing complications and forcing the removal of her uterus -- putting an end to her hopes of becoming a mother. Responding to her complaint the Delhi State Consumer Disputes