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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

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Doctors directed to file counter affidavits in abduction case

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed a nephrologist and a urologist, visiting consultants at a private hospital in Tiruchi, to file their counter affidavits on a habeas corpus petition moved by a lorry driver alleging that the doctors abducted his wife.

Though the petitioner's wife was produced before the court on Tuesday, a Division Bench, comprising Justice D. Murugesan and Justice N. Kannadasan, directed the police to keep her in a women's home here and ordered the duo to file their counter before June 20 in view of the serious allegations levelled by the petitioner.

According to the petitioner, Yesunadhar of Sengundrapuram in Virudhunagar district, a "kidney broker" took him to the hospital in Tiruchi, where the doctors removed his kidney without consent, for commercial gains. Later, his wife, Bhagyam, preferred a complaint with the police and a case was registered against six persons, including the doctor, the kidney broker and the beneficiary of the kidney under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994.

But when the Bench on April 16 dismissed the joint anticipatory bail application moved by the doctors in the case, they apprehended arrest and abducted his wife in order to force her to withdraw the complaint, the petitioner alleged.

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