Mumbai: After more than a month on the run, the Doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortions and female foeticide in Maharashtra's Beed district finally surrendered on Sunday. Doctors Sadam and Saraswati Munde will be produced in court on Monday. The Bombay High Court had rejected their bail plea on Friday.
CNN-IBN had reported last week how the doctor duo was allegedly responsible for mass female foeticide had managed to evade the law due to political patronage.
Sadam had been running a thriving sex determination and illegal abortion racket in Beed for close to two decades. It was CNN-IBN and IBN networks reports on the death of 28-year-old Vijaymala Patekar, pregnant with her fifth girl child and the recovery of several foetsus last month, put the focus on Beed.
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06:36 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: The doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortion cases in Beed on Sunday surrendered before police. Sadam Munde and his wife surrendered in Parali police station. Earlier, the Bombay High Court rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had exposed how illegal abortions and female foeticide were rampant in Beed district of Maharashtra. ...
09:39 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Mumbai: The doctor couple exposed on CNN-IBN for allegedly abetting mass female foeticide were well connected with top Maharashtra politicians. In an embarrassment for BJP leader Gopinath Munde and NCP chief Sharad Pawar, new pictures show them with the man known as the butcher of Beed, Sadam Munde, the doctor who is wanted for a number of female foeticide cases. The pictures also show the doctor's son hobnobbing with Gopinath...
01:01 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Patekar girls, the eldest 12 and the youngest only one, left to fend for themselves. Their mother 28-year-old Vijaymala Patekar hemorrhaged to death on the operating table last month. She was pregnant with her fifth girl child. The girls' father was arrested. After CNN-IBN highlighted Vijaymala's case and the recovery of several foetuses in Beed, the state government stepped in. The girls have been taken under the state...
09:21 AM, Jun 12, 2012
Beed: In a crackdown on female foeticide, the Maharashtra government is expected to order the closure of a stand-alone sonography centre in Beed district. The order comes after the recovery of several foetuses over the last few weeks and the death of a pregnant woman who was expecting her fourth girl child. Female foetus, three to six-months-old, were seen scattered in a drain in Beed. Among the most backward districts,...
07:29 AM, Jun 08, 2012
