Beed's doctor couple accused of rampant female foeticide arrested
Sudam and Saraswati Munde who are accused of carrying out rampant femate foeticide in the Beed district of Maharashtra surrendered to the police yesterday.
A doctor couple accused of conducting numerous gender-based illegal abortions in Maharashtra's Beed district surrendered to the police yesterday and are expected to be produced in a court today.
Dr Sudam and Saraswati Munde, who are accused of conducting abortions on women who wanted to abort girl children, surrendered to the police last night and are expected to be produced before a court in Parali area, the Times of India reported.
Representantional image. AFP
Initially the doctor duo were booked under bailable sections of the Indian Penal Code and were granted bail. When they were later booked under more stringent sections of law the Mundes fled, the Hindustan Times reported.
Another Jalgaon-based doctor, accused of conducting illegal sex determination tests on patients who were sent to him by the Mundes, has already been arrested and is in police custody.
Munde would send his patients to Jalgaon-based Dr Rahul Kolhe for sex determination tests, police said.
Police officials said that the sex determination test of the foetus of Vijaymala Patekar was conducted at Kolhe’s hospital in Jalgaon.
also read
Maharashtra EV policy 2021 explained: Subsidy increased, prices of EVs to fall sharply
The revised Maharashtra EV policy 2021 hands out a substantially higher incentive for all types of electric vehicles.
Maharashtra Class 10 SSC results declared: Education minister apologises as website crashes, assures strict action
The passing percentage among girls was 99.96 percent, while 99.94 percent of boys and 97.84 percent of differently-abled students passed the Class 10 exam
Maharashtra SSC Results 2021: Class 10 exam scores likely to released this week
Results will be based on an alternative assessment criteria formulated by the board after exams had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic