The Kasturba Marg police have arrested a Borivli-based gynaecologist for illegally carrying out an abortion on a 16-year-old rape survivor. Police sources said that instead of informing the cops, the doctor conducted the abortion without verifying the details of the teenager.

Gynaecologist Sayali Raiban runs her clinic Sankalp Women’s Hospital at Paras Business Centre in Carter Road, right next to the Kasturba Marg police station. Besides Raiban, the cops have also arrested 41-year-old accused, Navin Doshi, who the rape survivor has named in her complaint, and another person who helped her manage the abortion. “A 16-year-old-girl approached us this month with a complaint that she was raped by a watchman and another person helped her get the foetus aborted at a hospital. She further said in her complaint that the accused raped her on multiple occasions on the promise of marriage,” said a police officer.