A 19-year-old engineering student died after undergoing and alleged illegal abortion at a private nursing home in the city.
Police have filed a case against the concerned doctor Girija Rani and the girl’s boyfriend Madhu S, 21, and have taken the two into custody for further interrogation on a complaint by the girl’s father Mahesh Kalluri.
The girl had visited the Anusha Maternity Hospital and Nursing Home, Vanasthalipuram, on August 5 with her boyfriend, for an abortion in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr Rani had charged Rs 20,000 for the procedure.
Vanasthalipuram police station sub inspector Dharavath Vijay said, “She was administered a pill on admission, following which the foetus was aborted. The girl, however, experienced heavy bleeding and fell unconscious.
Later the doctor asked her boyfriend to shift her to another hospital where she was declared brought dead. Her body was shifted to the Osmania Hospital for an autopsy.
Cops also approached the district medical health officer (DMHO) to check if the hospital has the required certification to conduct abortions and if the doctor violated guidelines laid down by the Indian Medical Council while performing the procedure.
The girl was a second-year student of an engineering college in Ibrahimpatnam and was living at a private hostel at D N Reddy Nagar
