7-month pregnant girl dies during botched op; dad, hosp owner held

Bhubaneswar | Saturday | 17th February, 2018

Summary:

Police said Siku 's father Ajaya had paid Rs 9,000 to Dr Haramani Maharana , the nursing home owner, to carry out the abortion. She had been admitted to the private hospital by her father on Sunday. It is not known whether Maharana himself performed the operation and at which point a complication developed leading to the girl's death. "The father of the girl and a few employees of Mamata Nursing Home , where the abortion was carried out, packed the body in a large sack and dumped it at a secluded place in Dhalatarang forest. They even hired an autorickshaw to transport the body there," said Shiva Charan Mallick, Tirtol sub-divisional police officer.Siku's father Ajaya, the nursing home's owner Dr Maharana and the employees Binapani Mohanty, Hemalata Behera and Lipika Mohanty have been detained by the police..