Mumbai: 4 doctors including one Govt MO arrested for running abortion racket
MUMBAI: Nine persons, including four doctors, have been arrested for operating a racket in which female foetuses were aborted illegally in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, police said on Tuesday. An official said the racket was underway for several years in the MIDC, CIDCO and Osmanpura areas of the district.
One of the doctors who has been arrested, identified as Varsha Rajout, is a government medical officer, he added. "We suspect these persons performed at least 200 abortions in hospitals and clinics," Rahul Khade, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Aurangabad city, told.
He said the lid on the racket was blown off following a specific tip-off on January 22, resulting in the arrest of five persons in a raid on a hospital by MIDC police.
Police probe so far has revealed that accused Dr Suraj Rana is the kingpin in the racket and he was the main link between hospitals and clients desirous of an abortion, the official said. Apart for referring such persons to hospitals for carrying out illegal abortions, Rana also at times carried sex-determination machines to these medical facilities, he said.
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