Navi Mumbai Doctor booked on culpable homicide charge after woman dies during illegal abortion

Pune:  A doctor based in Navi Mumbai has been booked under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder following the death of a 25-year-old woman during an alleged illegal abortion procedure, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took a grim turn when Dagadkhaire and Gaikwad, on their return from Navi Mumbai on July 9, allegedly disposed of the woman's body and her two young children in the Indrayani River in Pune district. 

According to a PTI report, the pregnant woman died when she was sent by her paramour and main accused, Dagadkhaire, to Thane with his friend Gaikwad for an abortion, said an official of Pimpri Chinchwad police station.

The charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was pressed against the doctor and woman but no arrest has been made, the official added.

The doctor did not inform the police about the woman's death and handed over the body without following the procedure, he said, adds news agency PTI.

On the way back from Navi Mumbai on July 9, Dagadkhaire and Gaikwad allegedly threw the woman's body into the Indrayani river near Talegaon. When her children, aged two and five, started crying, the duo pushed them into the river as well.

The woman had separated from her husband and was in a relationship with Dagadkhaire.

After the woman's mother approached police with a missing person complaint, a probe began. The bodies of the woman and her two children have not been found yet.