The complainant, who hails from Tripura, said that after the surgery in Hyderabad, she was unable to stand properly and had to cancel her return flight tickets. (AI-generated image) Consumer court news: Holding a Hyderabad-based hospital and its spine surgeon guilty of medical negligence and deficiency in service, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-II, Hyderabad, has directed them to jointly pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to a woman from Tripura who claimed that an unnecessary spinal surgery left her bedridden and financially dependent on others for life. A bench comprising Sri Vakkanti Narasimha Rao (president) as well as P V T R Jawahar Babu and D Sreedevi (both members) was hearing a consumer complaint filed by one Jhumanath against the Yashoda Group of Hospitals, Malakpet, and spine surgeon Dr Venkata Ramakrishna T, alleging that the complainant had been subjected to an unwarranted spine surgery despite allegedly suffering only from Grade-I spondylolisthesis.…