Sex determination racket busted in Haryana, Doctor nabbed
Chandigarh: A health department team from Haryana’s Panchkula busted an alleged sex determination racket being run at a private hospital in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district. The authorities have nabbed Dr Mahesh Kumar, a BMS practitioner, red handed for conducting sex determination test and recovered Rs 17,000 from his possession. The officials of PCPNDT team revealed that Dr Mahesh was not even authorized to conduct scan and was not registered with the district health authorities
The raid at the hospital was conducted after coordinating with the Fatehgarh Sahib deputy commissioner and chief medical officer, Panchkula Deputy Commissioner Gauri Prashar Joshi said.
On a tip-off, a team from the Panchkula district administration sent a decoy customer, hailing from Haryana to the hospital, she said.
The team then carried out a raid after the hospital staff conducted sex determination tests. They were caught red-handed with the amount paid by the decoy customer, the officer claimed in a release.
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