Summary:
On May 18, 2012, Mahadeo took his wife to the four-storey Munde hospital in Parli for the illegal abortion. AURANGABAD: The Beed sessions court on Friday convicted the husband of a sugarcane labourer who died during an operation to abort her female foetus in 2012. They were convicted under eight different sections of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act in that case. The operation took place between 7.30pm and 9pm, during which Vijayamala bled excessively and later died.The police raided the hospital after they received information of Vijayamala’s death and sent her body for a post-mortem examination. Judge A S Gadhi sentenced the accused, Mahadeo Patekar, to 10 years in prison and also pronounced the same jail term for the doctor couple from Parli, Sudam Munde and his wife Saraswati, for the death of Vijayamala Patekar.The court also slapped a fine of Rs 4.5 lakh on the couple..