MALKIAT KAUR Vs. STATE OF PANJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ACCUSED Malkiat Kaur has filed this criminal revision petition assailing her conviction and sentence ordered by both the Courts below.

(2.) PETITIONER along with co-accused Lakhbir Kaur, Kuldeep Singh and Satish Kumar was tried under Sections 312 and 313 Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 4 and 5(2) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (in short, the Act) inter alia on the allegations that on receipt of secret information, raid was conducted on 05.04.2003 at the house of petitioner- Malkiat Kaur by Dr. A. S. Bhullar, Senior Medical Officer, Civil Hospital, Amloh-cum-Sub-Divisional Appropriate Authority along with staff nurse Mohinder Kaur and Class IV employees Bhagat Singh etc. and a public witness Om Parkash. It was found that the petitioner-an untrained Midwife had conducted abortion of Lakhbir Kaur.

(3.) I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and perused the case file.