GP held over circumcision of baby ‘without mother’s consent’

A FAMILY GP has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after allegedly circumcising a baby boy without his mother’s consent.

Dr Balvinder Mehat was held by police investigating the procedure, in which the three-month-old was said to have been operated on while on a visit to his paternal grandparents, who are Muslim.

The boy’s mother complained to the police about the clinician, who works at the Bakersfield Medical Centre in Nottingham, claiming her son was in obvious distress when he was handed back to her.

Dr Mehat was arrested on Wednesday, along with a 44-year-old man and a woman, 47, believed to be the child’s paternal grandparents, who were held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.

All three have been released pending further investigation.