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More arrests over sterilisation deaths in India

Friday, 14 November 2014


Indian police have arrested the owners of two pharmaceutical factories as part of the investigation into the deaths of 15 women after sterilisation surgery.
The two men were held on charges of destroying evidence - which they deny.
The doctor who conducted the surgery has also been detained. He denies negligence, saying the medicine administered may have been faulty.
Their cause of death remains unclear. The surgeries were part of a state-run mass sterilisation campaign.
The results of the post-mortem examinations of the 15 women who died in Chhattisgarh state have not been made public yet.
On Thursday police raided the factory which manufactured some of the drugs administered to the women who died after the sterilisation surgery, according to a news agency.