TNN | Mar 24, 2018, 09.38 IST
Beed district and sessions judge A S Gandhi on Thursday sentenced Shivaji Sanap, a medical practitioner from Beed, to three years rigorous imprisonment for illegal termination of pregnancy, but discharged him of all other charges.
Sanap was convicted under section 3 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. The court acquitted 14 others of all charges for want of concrete evidence, said Milind Waghirkar, the prosecution lawyer on Friday.
On June 2, 2012, the police found two female foetuses abandoned in Bindusarariver bank on the outskirts of Beed city, causing sensation across the state. The foetuses were aborted at the Sanap hospital, being run by Shivaji Sanap. Beed district then had the lowest child sex ratio in the state.
Subsequently, two suspects were discharged by the Bombay high court, Waghirkar said.
