mangalore dakshina kannada district police arrested five persons including a retired government medical officer in connection with the death of leelavathi 34 due to complications arising from forced medical termination of pregnancy her body was found at neerapalke of panjikallu village on sept 6 she was the daughter of gopal poojary resident of ponnangila house in kasba village of bantwal taluk the postmortem report indicated the presence of part of the skull of an aborted foetus due to a botched mtp which set the tone for police investigation superintendent of police abhishek goyal told reporters here on saturday dr hanumanth rao retired taluk medical officer gave leelavathi an injection and medicines to induce abortion and sent her to a private hospital here for treatment sp said her cousin bhasakar poojary sought dr hanumanth raos help in terminating the pregnancy which was due to their illicit relationship dr rao referred leelavathi to sadhi leela alias leela karkera a nurse known to him at the hospital here leela with help of bharathi a matron there took leelavathi who had come with bhaskar directly to the operation theatre without informing hospital authorities bhaskar paid rs 6000 to leela including the rs 1000 commission of dr rao the duo went on to perform the mtp illegally on leelavathi who suffered intense bleeding later bharathi unable to do anything called leela who had gone home by the time leela arrived leelavathi had died when bhaskar was informed about it he came with his friend laxman poojary an autorickshaw driver the duo took leelavathis body to the autorickshaw leela kept with her the cell phone and slippers of the victim and sent the other clothes with bhaskar who later dumped her body at panjikallu and her clothes in a drain at mandala in amtady village the sp set up a team of his officials as well from department of health and family welfare and raided the hospital there they subjected leela and bharati to intense questioning and recovered the victims slippers leela confessed to destroying the cell phone police produced bhaskar arrested earlier and the duo before the judge who remanded them into judicial custody a day later police swooped down on the clinic of dr rao at bantwal and recovered medicines prescribed normally by gynaecologists as well as equipment used by them police nabbed laxman the auto driver on sept 20 and seized the vehicle they too have been sent to judicial custody sp said