ahmedabad a city session court on wednesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to citybased gynecologist dr bharat atit husband of former mayor malini atit the bail application was with regard to the alleged illegal adoption and sale of a newborn baby additional sessions judge k j dasondi denied legal protection against possible arrest to the surgeon after holding that prima facie there seemed to be a valid case against him the court also observed that in such cases if the court grants bail people tend to lose faith in the judiciary hence in larger interest of justice the court cannot grant anticipatory bail in a case of alleged human trafficking said public prosecutor sudhir brahmbhatt the prosecutor had vehemently objected to dr atits anticipatory bail stating that this was the first time an offence of this type was registered in gujarat this practice is required to be suppressed with strictest of measures he argued the complaint in this regard was lodged at mahila police station in the city against atit and three others for human trafficking investigation into this issue had begun last year when a citybased woman accused her boyfriend rajkumar jadav of raping her she was fivemonth pregnant then that complaint was found to be false but police found that a child born to the woman was allegedly sold to a doctor couple in rajkot the doctor and three others have been accused of hatching a criminal conspiracy and bribing the mother of the child to determine the sex of the fetus upon the birth they allegedly committed human trafficking by selling the child dr atit sought anticipatory bail claiming that rather than investigating the serious charges of rape against jadav the probe was diverted and misdirected at him and his clinic in order to harass and humiliate himhouse raided after atits petition was rejected the crime branch raided his home near law garden we did not find him at his house we served his summons to his family members asking atit to be present at the crime branch office in gaekwad haveli at the earliest said a senior crime branch official