The protest is against the inaction of the civic administration in preventing sex determination tests in the city.
Cutting across party lines, corporators on Wednesday adjourned the PMC general body (GB) meeting to protest against the inaction of the civic administration in preventing sex determination tests in the city.
As the GB meeting started, Shiv Sena’s women corporators rushed into the well of the house and displayed banners demanding an end to female foeticide and action against doctors guilty of sex determination tests. Women corporators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) joined them.
Former mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale said, “Female foeticide is murder. The administration should explain why it backs
the doctors.”
Independent corporator Ujwal Keskar said Bhosale had brought the issue to the notice of the administration at a GB meeting four months ago. The administration must explain what action it took in this period. The doctors involved in the tests take the administration for granted, he said. Sena activists displayed banners and raised slogans against female foeticide in the visitors’ gallery.
Municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak said, “Citizens would see the impact of the action within a month. But it is also necessary to change the attitude of society towards the girl child.”
According to Pathak, the administration would start registration of pregnant women by the health department. The data would help track abortions. The civic administration would appoint squads to check sonography centres.
The women’s wing of the Congress demonstrated in the city, and its president, Kamal Vyavhare, warned that if such tests are not stopped, there would be social problems.
Meanwhile, the Vishrambaug police arrested 10 activists of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Wednesday for unlawful assembly to condemn alleged performance of sex determination tests by two doctors. The activists were produced before the judicial magistrate first class, KP Jain-Desarda, and released on personal bonds of Rs7,000 each.
The police said the activists gathered in violation of prohibitive orders at Dr Makrand Ranade’s hospital in Sadashiv Peth to carry out the agitation.
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