An offence has been registered against a doctor for allegedly disposing of medical waste in the open near his hospital in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Saturday.
An offence under section 269 (whoever unlawfully or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any disease) and other relevant provisions of the IPC has been registered against Dr Juber Shah at Ambernath, an official from the Shivaji Nagar police station said.
The health department of the Ambernath Municipal Council had found that used equipment and accessories such as injection vials, syringes, expired medicines were found dumped in the open near the doctor’s hospital, he said.
