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Horror in Haryana! Foetuses flushed down toilets after being illegally aborted

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A woman medical practitioner in Haryana has been arrested for attempting to abort a female foetus and conducting sex determination tests. The accused, Priyanka, was nabbed during a raid by officials of the health department while she was terminating the pregnancy of Geeta, a 25-year-old woman from a village near Yamuna Nagar.

Priyanka is an ayurvedic (BAMS) practitioner from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Health authorities nabbed her at Bungalow No 43 at a posh Saraswati colony in Jagadhari town in Yamuna Nagar district on Monday night. A team from the Red Cross Society also accompanied them. The health department team was led by Dr Neeraj Bassi.

Meanwhile, health authorities sealed the sonography machine at Vighnesh Hospital on Tuesday where Geeta had recently got her ultrasound done. An official at the health department stated that they were receiving complaints that Priyanka had been resorting to illegal medical terminations of pregnancy to kill the unborn female children.

Priyanka had been managing a clinic along with her sister Parul, also a BAMS practitioner, for five years. The sisters carried out at least half-a-dozen abortions each month. Dead foetuses used to be flushed down toilets.

The police said that a helper at the clinic revealed that the duo had a large clientele and women came to them by reference. The police, meanwhile, initiated an inquiry to find out the extent of the involvement of some other suspects.

Rajiv Miglani, a police officer monitoring the probe, said that the doctors had been running the hospital in a residential area and no one suspected them. He added that the accused told them that Geeta's pregnancy was terminated since she was in a critical condition and bearing the child could risk her life. The woman too refused to speak to anyone about the incident.

As per the rules, pregnant women in Haryana require identification proof while undergoing ultrasound scan. This move is a part of efforts to check female foeticide in a state infamous for its adverse sex ratio. The government also made it mandatory for radiologist to ask for a copy of the document from women before conducting ultrasounds.

The government has also announced Rs.21,000 as prize for those giving information about a physician conducting sex-determination tests.


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