Doctors offer to maim beggars in TV sting
INDIA: Three Indian doctors caught on camera apparently agreeing to
amputate the healthy limbs of beggars are to be questioned by the Indian
Medical Council, an official said Tuesday.
Secretly filmed footage taken by the CNN-IBN news channel and
broadcast Saturday showed one of the doctors asking for 10,000 rupees
(about $215) to amputate a lower leg, leaving a stump that may draw
sympathy - and a few rupees - from passersby.
He then suggests chopping off three fingers from the man's left hand.
Police said one of the three doctors had been questioned and denied
the allegations, but that no arrests had been made.
The doctor, from Ghaziabad in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
and a satellite town of the capital, New Delhi, explains how he can
stitch up blood vessels in a healthy limb, causing it to blacken with
gangrene over a few days.
New Delhi, Wednesday, Reuters |