Rs 1,200 for an abortion and an MTP kit handed to a police decoy: the Class 12 'doctor' running Kamal Clinic in a Gurugram village

Gurugram, the Haryana city on Delhi's southern edge, has thousands of small clinics serving workers in its villages and unauthorised colonies, and the district health authorities use the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act to act against those run by people who are not doctors. A decoy operation in July 2026 ended with the arrest of a 27-year-old who, police allege, had been performing abortions without any medical qualification. A second raid in August found another man treating patients with no degree or licence.

According to a PTI report carried by ThePrint (27 July 2026), the Gurugram nodal officer under the PCPNDT Act lodged a complaint at Sector-65 police station on Sunday 26 July after receiving information that a man was running "Kamal Clinic" without a valid medical degree. Police sent a pregnant woman to the clinic as a decoy customer. The man, identified as Kamal Mahto, originally from Malda district in West Bengal and living in Ghata village, allegedly charged her Rs 1,200 for an abortion and handed her an MTP kit with instructions on how to use it. When she gave a pre-arranged signal, the police team raided the clinic and arrested him. During questioning he said he had studied up to Class 12 and had no recognised medical degree, police said.

Medical Dialogues reported on 28 July that the clinic was not registered under the MTP Act, that police seized an MTP kit, a large quantity of pharmaceutical drugs and medical equipment, and that the accused could not produce patient records or any documents on the purchase, sale or distribution of medicines. "We are questioning the accused and further investigation is underway," a senior officer said. On 12 August Medical Dialogues reported a second Gurugram raid: a joint team of the Chief Minister's Flying Squad and the health department found a man treating patients at "Saini Clinic" in Binola village who could not produce any degree or licence. Officials seized three beds, a stethoscope, a blood-pressure machine, a thermometer, injections, medicines, used syringes, prescription slips, lab reports, the clinic register and a doctor's stamp, and an FIR was registered at Bilaspur police station under section 34 of the NMC Act and sections 125 and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The accused was arrested.

The mechanism is the simplest in this field: a shopfront, a board, a stock of medicines and a clientele that does not ask for a registration certificate. Kamal Clinic was not registered under the MTP Act, and the Saini Clinic man had no degree or licence to show. What police allege in the first case, an abortion arranged by an unqualified person at an unapproved place, carries an immediate risk to the woman: incomplete abortion, haemorrhage and infection with nobody qualified to manage them.

Students living in Gurugram and families seeking a cheap consultation should apply the same test. A genuine clinic displays the doctor's name and registration number, which can be checked on the Haryana Medical Council and National Medical Register websites, and MTP services are lawful only at approved facilities. Unregistered practitioners can be reported to the district Chief Medical Officer or the PCPNDT nodal officer.