Latest news with #AhmedabadRuralPolice
Indian Express
27-05-2025
- Indian Express
Nurse arrested for running illegal abortion clinic in Bavla
The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Ahmedabad Rural Police on Tuesday raided a hotel in Bavla town and busted an illegal abortion clinic operating on its premises. The team also found a woman who had just undergone the illicit medical procedure and recovered an aborted foetus. Besides Hemlata, the woman who underwent the abortion, another woman who helped Hemlata during the procedure, as well as the owner of the guest house, were booked under BNS Sections 91 (act to prevent a child from being born), 92 (causing death of an unborn child amounting to culpable homicide), 54 (abetment), as well as sections 5(2), and 5(3) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. A team of the SOG had been patrolling in Bavla town. ASI Bharatsinh Khumansinh, meanwhile, received a tip-off that Hemlata, the wife of one Kalpesh Chinu Darji and a resident of Dholka, who did not possess a medical licence, was running an illegal abortion clinic at Panama Guest House in Bavla. The police informed Taluka Health Officer Dr Rakesh Mehta and Medical Officer Dr Ankita Rabari of the Urban Health Center in Bavla, after which, the raid was carried out. Police officers said that Hemlata had studied nursing. She had previously worked at a private hospital in Dholka and was currently working in another. Having learnt the procedure to perform medical abortions, she started her own business by discreetly performing abortions in lieu of payment for keeping the matter secret. Deputy SP Neelam Goswami said that when the joint team raided Room No. 105 of the Panama Guest House, they found that an abortion had already been completed. The police seized a female foetus. She also said that the nurse would only conduct medical termination and not surgical termination of pregnancies. DySP Goswami added that Hemlata used to solicit her clients at the hospital she worked at, especially luring those who already had one or two daughters and had illegally found out the sex of their foetus. She said that the police are also trying to find out hospitals or maternity homes where this illegal testing are done.
Indian Express
02-05-2025
- Indian Express
Rs 1.9 crore in demonetised currency seized in Ahmedabad; RBI, I-T Dept, ED informed
The Ahmedabad Rural Police on Thursday shot off a letter to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Income Tax Department after officials from Sanand police station seized demonetised currency notes with its earlier face value of over Rs 1.9 crore. Notably, the last date of possible exchange for these denominations of Indian currency was exactly 8 years and a month ago. The police are trying to find out as to why such a large number of notes were being transported through rural Ahmedabad and who owned this cash and whether or not the notes were real or Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN). Officials from the surveillance squad of the Sanand police station were informed that a white Brezza car was heading from Bavla to Sanand with a large number of demonetised notes. A police team reached the Bavla bypass and intercepted the vehicle. They found 29,756 currency notes of Rs 500 denomination each with a former face value of Rs 1,48,78,000, and another 4,154 currency notes of Rs 1,000 denomination with a former face value of Rs 41,54,000. After demonetisation of notes was announced on November 8, 2016, currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations that were in circulation at that time had ceased to be legal tender in the country. Later, the Rs 2,000 currency notes, which were introduced in lieu of the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, were withdrawn from circulation from May 19, 2023. However, they still continue to be legal tender. Since the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes hold no value at present, being caught with them is a non-cognisable offence. The Sanand police filed a seizure of property reports under Section 106 of the BNSS and asked the two men who were transporting the cache of old currency, to be present when called, during the investigation, said PI HG Rathod.
