Chhattisgarh Offers Test Tube Baby Facility To Surrendered Naxals
Forced to undergo vasectomy in Maoist camps, 22 rebels surrender: Reports
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh government will offer modern medical assistance such as test tube baby facilities to the surrendered Naxals who had been forced to undergo vasectomy in the Maoist camps, to ensure that they lead a normal marital life by becoming biological fathers of their children.
This was announced by Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister Vijay Sharma, who holds the home portfolio, here on Friday.
A shocking practice has prevailed in the outlawed CPI (Maoist) in which a young male Naxal who falls in love with a female cadre and wishes to marry her is needed to seek permission from his unit chief for it and the couple is allowed to tie the nuptial knot provided the male ultra undergoes vasectomy in the rebel camp.
The horrible practice came to light in 2010 when around half-a-dozen Naxals who surrendered in Kanker in Bastar narrated their ordeal of being forced to undergo vasectomy in the Maoists’ medical camps before marrying their Naxal spouses.
The issue had triggered international outrage at that time.
As many as 26 such cases have come to the fore so far, a senior police officer in Bastar told this newspaper.
They are being provided necessary medical assistance under social rehabilitation policy for the surrendered Naxals of the state government to reverse vasectomy through surgery to make such couples biological parents of their children.
However, the reverse vasectomy surgery has been successful in 12 out of 26 such cases so far, whereas the vasectomy could not be reversed in the remaining 14 cases, the police officer said.
“All needful medical assistance including the test tube baby facility will be given to the Naxals in whose case the reverse vasectomy surgery has failed to enable them to lead a normal marital life by becoming biological fathers of their children”, Mr. Sharma said.
Besides, an option for adoption of children will also be given to them, sources said.
According to Dr G K Pandey who has done PhD in Leftwing extremism in Bastar, the vasectomy surgeries have been performed by the ‘Naxal doctors’, who barely passed Class eight, in the Maoist camps.
Meanwhile, 22 Maoists, collectively carrying a bounty of Rs 37.5 lakh, on Friday surrendered in Narayanpur in south Bastar, police said.
The surrendered Naxals included one divisional committee member (DVCM), carrying a bounty of Rs eight lakh, and three area committee members, carrying a reward of Rs five lakh each.