Amit was treated at the TMH last year between April and June. Dr Inder Pal and Dr Harish Manglani had, under department head Dr Rajesh Badhwar's guidance, performed a rotationplasty to conserve the affected limb. Thakur had complained that the operation was performed in an incorrect manner.

Dr Badhwar admitted that Amit's limb was indeed aligned in a slightly different angle. ``But who doesn't make mistakes? And it is something that can be corrected very easily,'' he said. ``But the improper alignment has nothing to do with the grotesque manner in which the limb has now swollen up,'' he claimed. Dr Badhwar maintained that the surgery has failedto help Amit because of recurrence of cancer and not because of shortcomings on the part of the hospital staff.