HC orders inquiry into C-section on rape survivor despite pregnancy termination order
PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 25 -- The Allahabad high court has ordered an inquiry into the circumstances in which a C-section was performed on a 13-year-old rape survivor although the court had earlier directed termination of her pregnancy.
It observed that the doctors involved were prima facie guilty of "deliberate negligence" for failing to comply with its order. The court said it was a fit case for appropriate proceedings against the doctors for having "played with the life of a rape victim" whose application before the court was for medical termination of pregnancy.
The bench comprising Justice Ajit Kumar and Justice Garima Prashad on Wednesday directed the principal secretary, medical and health, UP, to conduct an inquiry and submit a report within 2 weeks after examining the doctors involved, the minor victim and her mother, as well as the investigating officer. P2...
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