Aurangabad (Maharashtra), July 03: A lady doctor and a nurse were arrested here for allegedly trying to sell a new-born abandoned child from a hospital, police said today. Dr Geeta Shevgan, the civil surgeon of the government hospital, who also runs a private hospital, and nurse Mandabai were held yesterday for keeping an abandoned child in her hospital with the intention of selling the infant, ACP Dnyaneshwar Chavan told reporters.
A woman from Mangirwadi-Anolhari village in Sillod Tahsil had delivered the girl child last month at Shegvan's Geetanjali hospital. But she did not take the new-born with her as it was born from an illicit relationship, he said.
However, Dr Shevgan neither informed the police nor did she send the child to a government orphanage as she allegedly planned to sell the child to a needy couple.
On a tip off, police laid a trap with the help of a police couple who approached the hospital to buy the baby and carried out negotiations with Mandabai.
Police subsequently arrested Dr Shevgan and Mandabai, both of whom were released on bail last night, Chavan said. A case has been registered against them under sections 468, 465 and 120 of IPC, he added. Bureau Report