Illegal abortion: 2 arrested in Sonepat, doctor on the run

The Health Department raided Dharuhera and arrested two persons for allegedly running an illegal abortion business, while a doctor managed to flee. The police have registered a case.

As per information, Dr Jayant Ahuja, Civil Surgeon, received a tip-off about illegal abortion/MTP by unauthorised persons at a hospital in Dharuhera.

A joint team comprising Dr Sumit Kaushik, nodal officer, PCPNDT, Sonepat, and Dr Jitender Sharma arranged for a decoy patient, who reached SL Hospital and met an employee, Rajeev, there. He asked her to wait and after some time, Dr Rohit Dhariwal reportedly arrived and agreed to perform the MTP for Rs 8,000. The decoy gave him 16 notes of Rs 500 denomination.

The decoy patient was admitted without any documentation and her blood sample was taken. The raiding team entered the hospital and nabbed Harish of Alwar in Rajasthan and Rajeev of Santosh Colony at Dharuhera, but Dr Dhariwal managed to run away by scaling the wall of the hospital, along with the decoy’s money.