GOPICHAND vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Crl.A. No. 1367/2006

Case Summary: On 13 January 2011, the Supreme Court dismissed Gopichand's criminal appeal with modification. Gopichand, an unqualified doctor with Aurved Electropathy credentials, was convicted of administering improper injections to abort a woman's pregnancy in 2001, causing her death from excessive bleeding. The Court reduced his sentence from 10 years to 5 years rigorous imprisonment (considering he had already served 2 years 3 months and that both the deceased and her husband had sought his services), and ordered him taken into custody forthwith to serve the remaining sentence. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.