Doc couple held in illegal adoption case

Tribune News Service

Karnal, December 29

The Karnal police have arrested a doctor couple of Meerut who were allegedly evading arrest in connection with their alleged involvement in the illegal adoption of a child of a migrant woman labourer.

A case under Sections 363, 368, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 80 and 81 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 was filed against Dr DP Shrivastav and his wife, Dr Sashibala, a gynaecologist, on June 15. Now, they have been arrested by the police and sent to judicial custody.

In February, Jyoti, the mother of the child and a resident of Kunjpura, had alleged that the doctor couple had taken her four-day-old son in their care on pretext of treatment on September 18, 2020.

The police had arrested the couple of Meerut, who had adopted the boy in September 2020, soon after the registration of FIR. The child who was illegally adopted was also recovered.

SP Ganga Ram Punia said that the doctor couple was arrested recently. During investigation, the police found it to be a case of an illegal adoption.