Doctor held for injecting wife, child with HIV

A doctor and his family, absconding for the last 47 days after he was accused of injecting his wife and child with HIV, were arrested near M...

A doctor and his family, absconding for the last 47 days after he was accused of injecting his wife and child with HIV, were arrested near Malegaon.

Dr Ajay Sharma, his father Dr Ramesh Sharma, mother, brother Dr Sanjay Sharma and sister were arrested on their way to Indore from Shirdi. The Sharmas were on the run since March 30, when Dr Ajay Sharma’s wife Bharati lodged an FIR with the Nandurbar police, accusing him of injecting her and their daughter with HIV so that he could marry another woman. The Sharmas lived in Jalka Bazar locality and ran a private nursing home.

Bharati’s father Vishnu Sharma said Bharati, a diploma holder in electronic engineering, was married on February 13, 2001 to Dr Ajay Sharma. ‘‘But the problems began about three months after the wedding. We brought about a reconciliation with the intervention of some elderly people,’’ he said.

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Bharati conceived and went to Shahada for delivery. Three months later, Ajay told his father-in-law that he wanted a divorce as Bharati was HIV-positive. When the shocked parents conducted an HIV test, Bharati and her daughter were found positive.

‘‘When I returned to my husband after my delivery, he told me that I and my baby would have to be injected a vaccine for Hepatitis B. Now, I realise he must have injected the (HIV) virus into us,’’ Bharati said.

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