- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Lauren Codling
A DOCTOR accused of circumcising a child without consent was cleared of all charges last Friday (10). Dr Balvinder Mehat, 61, was reported to have performed the procedure on the three-month old baby in July 2013. The procedure is said to have taken place when the child’s grandmother took him for surgery in Nottingham. The GP, from the Bakersfield Medical Centre, was accused of performing a non-therapeutic circumcision on the infant for religious reasons rather than medical. Initially a complaint was made to Nottinghamshire police regarding the incident, but they deemed it not a criminal matter. The case was revisited…
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