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02-05-2009, 10:24 AM
Bail denied to doc who did sex-change surgery
30 Apr 2009, 0620 hrs IST, TNN
CHENNAI: A sessions court here rejected the bail application of Nagannan, who is accused of performing sex-change surgery on a Chennai boyallegedly abducted by a group of transgenders.
The prosecution' s charge against the doctor is that he had conducted the unauthorised operation on one Vinodh, who became Trisha' after he joined the group of transgenders.
Principal sessions judge P Devadoss rejected the bail pleas of the doctor from Cuddappah in Andhra Pradesh, after the city public prosecutor M Shahjahan said similar cases were pending against the doctor in Andhra Pradesh as well as Karnataka. The doctor is an educated person and was aware of the consequences of the operation, he argued.
Shahjahan further contended that once the operation was completed, the victims were pushed into begging and prostitution. The doctor was an active partner in the criminal syndicate, he said.
Concurring with his submissions, the judge rejected the bail pleas of Nagannan, who pleaded that he was a diabetic and that he had stopped conducting such surgeries long ago.
Meanwhile, the 11 transgenders who were arrested by the city police in connection with the abduction of Vinodh, filed their second bail petitions before the same judge. It will be taken up for hearing on Thursday.
30 Apr 2009, 0620 hrs IST, TNN
CHENNAI: A sessions court here rejected the bail application of Nagannan, who is accused of performing sex-change surgery on a Chennai boyallegedly abducted by a group of transgenders.
The prosecution' s charge against the doctor is that he had conducted the unauthorised operation on one Vinodh, who became Trisha' after he joined the group of transgenders.
Principal sessions judge P Devadoss rejected the bail pleas of the doctor from Cuddappah in Andhra Pradesh, after the city public prosecutor M Shahjahan said similar cases were pending against the doctor in Andhra Pradesh as well as Karnataka. The doctor is an educated person and was aware of the consequences of the operation, he argued.
Shahjahan further contended that once the operation was completed, the victims were pushed into begging and prostitution. The doctor was an active partner in the criminal syndicate, he said.
Concurring with his submissions, the judge rejected the bail pleas of Nagannan, who pleaded that he was a diabetic and that he had stopped conducting such surgeries long ago.
Meanwhile, the 11 transgenders who were arrested by the city police in connection with the abduction of Vinodh, filed their second bail petitions before the same judge. It will be taken up for hearing on Thursday.