INDIA POLICE FINDS 19 ABORTED FOETUSES IN SANGLI COMMUNITY

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Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have found 19 aborted female foetuses near a hospital. 
Senior police officials in Sangli district said the remains were "buried with the intention of disposing them".

The police told the BBC that they found the foetuses while they were investigating the death of a woman who had undergone an illegal abortion.

Activists say the incident proves yet again that female foeticide is rampant in India despite awareness campaigns.

The police said that the woman had died in a "botched abortion", and they were looking for the foetus near a local hospital when they made the grisly discovery.

"It appears to be an abortion racket. We have arrested the husband of the woman, and have launched a manhunt for the doctor who has gone missing," Dattatray Shinde, superintendent of police, told the BBC.

Dr Ganesh Rakh, who campaigns to save the female child and appeared in the BBC's Unsung Indians series, said the case proves that illegal sex determination and abortion was still practised in India.

"This is horrifying. Female foeticide is happening at the scale of a genocide in India. This case proves that people still prefer boys and girls are still unwanted," he said.

"I think abortions were happening on a large scale in Sangli. Once the doctor is arrested, I fear we will find more aborted female foetuses."

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