Doc booked after 21-year-old pregnant woman, child die during delivery

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The Uttar Pradesh police booked a woman quack for allegedly running a clinic in Noida's Mamura village without licence after a 21-year-old pregnant woman died during delivery. The alleged incident came to light after the victim's husband Kamlesh filed a complaint at the Phase 3 police station on Monday. The victim was identified as Ruchi, a native of Shahjahanpur.

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According to a report in Hindustan Times, the victim was in her last month of pregnancy and was complaining of pain on Sunday night. "We took her to a clinic which is near our house only. A female doctor checked her and said that my wife would need to be admitted," the husband said in his police complaint.

Kamlesh, who works at a private company said that the family waited outside the clinic the whole night as there were some complications during the delivery. The family got worried when no one came out the next morning. "When we didn't get any information for a long time, we decided to go inside. The doctor was missing and my wife was lying dead," he said.

Following this, Kamlesh approached the police and a team was rushed to the spot. Prima facie it seems that the woman died of complications during the delivery and the baby got stuck and died along with her, a police official said. Later, dead bodies of the mother and the child were handed over to the family after an autopsy.

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Acting on Kamlesh's complaint, the Noida police registered a case against the fake doctor under Section 304A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code. Police officials said that the woman did not have a licence to practise medicine. "We have seized the documents found at the clinic. Her credentials appear to be fake and a search is on for her," Jitendra Dikshit, station house officer, Phase 3 police station said.

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