Lucknow: Pathologist wife sues Radiologist Husband for Sex Determination

Lucknow: In a unique story of violation of the PC-PNDT Act, Asian Age has recently reported the case of a known pathologist in the city of Lucknow, who has now filed a case against her husband, a radiologist, for sex determination. It has been alleged that the husband after determining the sex of the foetus , asked the wife to undergo an abortion when it became clear the it was a girl child. The wife went ahead with the pregnancy and decided to file a complaint against the husband after recently getting a divorce notice from him.

The pathologist wife, Dr Prakriti Shukla,  had married Dr Tushar Ojha, a radiologist by profession in December 2014. She became pregnant in the month of July 2015 and in due course had an ultrasound performed at her father-in-law's diagnostic center.

“After the test, the behavior of my in-laws and my husband changed. My husband asked me to abort the child and tried to convince me we were not in a position to have the baby. I found the behaviour strange. Next day, after the ultrasonography, my mother-in-law told me in clear terms that since it was a girl that I was carrying, I must abort it as they did not wish to have a girl in the family,”, Dr Shukla said in her complaint.