Dr Shivaji Sanap, who runs a private maternity clinic on Jalna Road in the city, has been booked under various sections of IPC, Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, for abortions performed beyond five months of pregnancy.
Two female foetuses were found dumped in the dry basin of Bindusara river in the city yesterday, Superintendent of Police Dattatray Mandlik told reporters today.
Stating the abortions in these two cases had been carried out at Dr Sanap's clinic, Mandlik said, one was an unmarried girl from Pune and the other a married woman from Georai tehsil of Beed district.
According to the post-mortem report of the two female foetuses, one was eight months and six days, while the other was of five months and eight days, Mandlik said.
While the unmarried girl and the woman had not been arrested as they were being treated at a hospital, Mandlik said that the girl's father Pratap Nanasaheb Patekar and the woman's husband Ravindra Harale had been arrested.
Yesterday, police also held two women - Mangal Masu Dhighe (29) and Manisha Vilas Javle (28) - who worked at Dr Sanap's hospital for allegedly dumping the two foetuses in the river, police said.
In addition to these two illegal abortion cases, investigations revealed another case in which a six-month foetus of a 17-year-old unmarried girl was aborted at the same hospital, police said.
A case has been registered against the teenaged girl, her father Abhiman Jaybhay, mother Sunita and Dr Sanap, police inspector Sanjay Lohkare said. (More)
