In August 2026, letters from the National Medical Commission reached Arka Chakraborty at his home in Hooghly, West Bengal. They returned his appeals against the Karnataka Medical Council’s decisions in his brother’s death, along with the demand drafts he had paid as fees. Both appeals, the Commission said, were “not maintainable.”
Arka’s younger brother, Arnab, died in Bengaluru on 27 April 2022, aged 23, less than five months after open-heart surgery. For nearly four years, Arka pursued complaints against doctors at two Bengaluru hospitals before the Karnataka Medical Council (KMC). On 16 May 2026, the KMC dismissed both. When he turned to the country’s apex medical regulator, he was told he had no right to be heard.
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The reason the National Medical Commission (NMC) gave him sits uneasily with its own record. In 2023, the Commission brought back the rules that give patients and their families the right to appeal. In 2024, it told the Supreme Court those rules were in force. The replies sent to Arka mention neither.
“I am deeply disheartened that the NMC has rejected my appeal,” Arka told The Probe. “Where do patients who don’t get justice go, if not to the NMC?”
How Arka’s Complaints Were Dismissed
Arnab was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect that reduces the oxygen reaching the body. On 6 December 2021, he underwent corrective open-heart surgery at Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bengaluru. Days later his conditio
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