KOLKATA: Days after a surrogate mother was arrested for taking money from a Rashbehari-based couple and got an abortion, the New Alipore police has charged accused Kashmeera Mollah of taking help of a quack doctor and spending Rs 4,000 for killing the foetus.
The cops are also taking legal advice to file a separate case against the quack, OT assistant Gopal Malik, who has a six-room nursing home near Mandirbazar in Diamond Harbour and claimed to have carried out over 15,000 operations in the past eight years. His aide Azizul Rahaman Piyada had taken Kashmeera to him.
“In her two weeks of police custody, Kashmeera stuck to her statement that she fell and miscarried. She claimed she threw the dead foetus in the river. We established that she had been admitted at Diamond Harbour Government Hospital on January 17. Kashmeera then gave birth to a stillborn,” said an officer.
The cops were planning to file a charge sheet, but a sentence on Kashmeera’s admission slip — that said “she came with a dead child in her womb without profuse bleeding” — suggested she either took a synthetic steroid or had a quack kill the foetus.
“’We seized various questionable drugs and sealed Malik’s hospital. We have added Section 315 IPC against all three for homicidal miscarriage. Kashmeera is already in jail custody and the other two are in police custody till March 16,” said an officer.
The cops are also taking legal advice to file a separate case against the quack, OT assistant Gopal Malik, who has a six-room nursing home near Mandirbazar in Diamond Harbour and claimed to have carried out over 15,000 operations in the past eight years. His aide Azizul Rahaman Piyada had taken Kashmeera to him.
“In her two weeks of police custody, Kashmeera stuck to her statement that she fell and miscarried. She claimed she threw the dead foetus in the river. We established that she had been admitted at Diamond Harbour Government Hospital on January 17. Kashmeera then gave birth to a stillborn,” said an officer.
The cops were planning to file a charge sheet, but a sentence on Kashmeera’s admission slip — that said “she came with a dead child in her womb without profuse bleeding” — suggested she either took a synthetic steroid or had a quack kill the foetus.
“’We seized various questionable drugs and sealed Malik’s hospital. We have added Section 315 IPC against all three for homicidal miscarriage. Kashmeera is already in jail custody and the other two are in police custody till March 16,” said an officer.
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