Extreme Lawlessness: Gynaecologist attacked with sickle for refusing to perform MTP

However, on saturday night, the man returned with a mob and again pressed the doctor to reconsider the abortion. When the doctor refused, the man attacked him with a sickle like long-bladed weapon (‘koyta’). The doctor sustained injuries on his left shoulder and on three fingers of the left hand, which were wounded in the attack. Fortunately, he managed to pushed them away and fled his own clinic.

" a gang of ruffians led by the man broke into his clinic and pressed him to reconsider. One person stood outside the doctor’s cabin while one stood out on watch outside the clinic. When Dr. Bidkar flatly refused, he was assaulted with a sharp weapon and sustained injuries on his shoulder. Fortunately, he is out of danger,” said Dr. Pradeep Nanaware, president, Sangvi-Pimple Gurav Doctors Association told the HINDU.

After the incident, doctors  Sangvi-Pimple Gurav Doctors association gathered at the Sangvi police station and demanded that the miscreants be nabbed immediately.

Deccan Chronicle adds that the police has registered a case and arrested the atttacker, one Suryawanshi from the Kirkee area . DCP Ganesh Shinde said, “We have nabbed the accused and he is in our custody.”