Indian police find 19 fetuses in a sewer
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INDIAN police found 19 aborted fetuses dumped in plastic bags in the western state of Maharashtra while they investigated a woman’s death after an abortion — uncovering what officials suspect is an inter-state female feticide racket.
Police said yesterday they had teamed up with health officials to launch a major investigation into the case in a village in Sangli district near the border with Karnataka state.
A homeopathic doctor, suspected of performing illegal sex-selective abortions in the basement of his dispensary in the village, was on the run.
Indian laws ban doctors and health workers from sharing an unborn child’s sex with the parents, or carrying out tests to determine the child’s gender. Only registered medical practitioners are allowed to perform abortions. Nevertheless, female feticide continues in parts of India, where a preference for sons runs deep.
Indian wedding customs mean girls are often seen as a huge cost with very little returns, partly because the practice of demanding dowries remains the norm, despite being illegal.
Police were alerted by villagers after a 26-year-old woman died after undergoing an abortion at the clinic of the homeopathist, who was not licensed to terminate pregnancies.
Their investigation led them to the fetuses in a sewer near the clinic, local media reported.
“We our presuming these could be female fetuses and our investigation is on this line,” Satish Pawar, director of health services in Maharashtra, said.
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