BENGALURU: A case of causing death by negligence was registered against a doctor by Ramanagara Town police, in connection with the death of a 21-year-old woman who had undergone a laparoscopic tubectomy at a medical camp. The woman had died of severe complications following the surgery. After the woman’s death, police had registered a case of suspicious death based on a complaint from her husband in March 2025.
A case was registered against the doctor following a report from the Directorate of Medical Education on KR Road, which stated that the woman’s death was due to medical negligence.
The FIR was registered against Dr MV Ramakrishnaiah, working in a hospital on Bengaluru-Mysuru Road. The complaint was filed by police sub-inspector Syed Tanveer Hussain of Ramanagara Town police station on Monday, based on the report from the Directorate of Medical Education.
She died at 10.32am on March 26, 2025. Suspecting medical negligence behind Madhuri’s death, her husband K Anil Kumar, a resident of Vijayanagar in Ramanagara, filed a complaint at Ramanagara Town police station. A case of unnatural death was registered.
“After the postmortem, the viscera was sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), and the FSL report was sent to the Directorate of Medical Education for a final report. The report stated that medical negligence on part of the doctor conducting laparoscopic tubectomy cannot be ruled out. Based on the final report, the FIR was registered against the doctor. The case is still under investigation and the doctor has not yet been arrested,” said an officer.
The case was registered under section 106(1) of BNS.