Delhi gynaecologist gets life imprisonment for killing her minor twins with anaesthesia overdose
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Delhi: A gynaecologist, Dr Roopa Singh, previously attached to a government hospital in the capital reportedly been sentenced life term by the Delhi Court after the court found her guilty for fatally injecting her minor twins with anaesthesia and an attempt to commit suicide. The accused had pleaded temporary insanity arising from depression for the crime.
The incident goes back to the year 2009, when the gynaecologist after having an argument with her doctor husband over her plan of setting her own nursing home, checked into a hotel with her daughters. At the hotel, she injected her daughters with anaesthesia (Sucol injection) and then tried to commit suicide by injecting herself with the same medicine.
TOI reports that in a groggy state while under the influence of the injection, she phoned her husband who he rushed to the location and found his wife unconscious and the twins dead. The twins were rushed to a Max Hospital where they were declared brought dead.Dr Singh was a senior resident at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini at that time.
Before the court, Public prosecutor Pankaj Ranga, seeking capital punishment for the doctor claimed that Singh injected her twin daughters with the anaesthetic substance in the hotel fully aware that it was fatal for them. He said the accused then injected herself with the same medicine with the intention to kill herself. The prosecution sought capital punishment on the ground of the victims’ tender age and because the mother had shown no mercy
The incident goes back to the year 2009, when the gynaecologist after having an argument with her doctor husband over her plan of setting her own nursing home, checked into a hotel with her daughters. At the hotel, she injected her daughters with anaesthesia (Sucol injection) and then tried to commit suicide by injecting herself with the same medicine.
TOI reports that in a groggy state while under the influence of the injection, she phoned her husband who he rushed to the location and found his wife unconscious and the twins dead. The twins were rushed to a Max Hospital where they were declared brought dead.Dr Singh was a senior resident at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini at that time.
Before the court, Public prosecutor Pankaj Ranga, seeking capital punishment for the doctor claimed that Singh injected her twin daughters with the anaesthetic substance in the hotel fully aware that it was fatal for them. He said the accused then injected herself with the same medicine with the intention to kill herself. The prosecution sought capital punishment on the ground of the victims’ tender age and because the mother had shown no mercy
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