A pharmacist, who was on the run for the last one month since causing the death of a 27-year-old woman during a botched abortion procedure in his medical shop, was arrested by a special team of the Thittakudi police on Tuesday night.
The accused, identified as Murugan, owner of Om Sakthi Medicals in Ramanatham near Thittakudi, was produced before a local court and remanded in custody.
According to the police, Anitha, wife of Velmurugan of Vepanthattai in Perambalur district, approached Murugan for abortion as an illegal pre-natal scan revealed that the couple’s third child was a female. The accused allegedly prescribed her some pills and attempted the procedure in his medical shop on May 5.
