A newborn died in Jharkhand’s Chatra district after a quack allegedly cut his genitals to prove that his “sex determination test” was correct, IANS reported on Wednesday. The police have registered a first information report against the quack, Anuj Kumar, who is absconding.
Gudia Devi was admitted to Om Nursing Home in Jaiprakash Nagar area on Tuesday. Kumar conducted an ultrasound and told her husband that she would deliver a baby girl, said the police. However, the woman gave birth to a boy on Tuesday night. To prove himself right, Kumar allegedly cut the baby’s genitals and claimed that a girl was born with deformities.
“The doctor accused in the case did not have any registration or licence under the PNDT Act,” Chatra Civil Surgeon Dr SP Singh told The Indian Express. “He would scout for couples looking to know the gender of the foetus and get ultrasound done at the clinic of some of his associates. We have got the postmortem of the baby done. The allegations against the doctor that he got the genitals severed… are true.”
The police sealed the nursing home on Wednesday morning.
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