Yamunanagar Doctor selling medicines guaranteeing male child arrested

Yamunanagar: In a raid at a private clinic in the city, a team of the state health department caught a doctor who was allegedly selling allopathic medicine that guaranteed the birth of a baby boy. 

After nabbing the accused red-handed, the health authorities handed him to the police following which he was arrested under Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC); 12 and 21 of the NDPS Act; 15 (2) and 15 (3) of the Indian Medical Council Act; 34 (1) and 34 (2) of the National Medical Commission Act and relevant Sections of the PC PNDT Act.

Around 13 different types of allopathic medications were discovered to be expired and stored within the clinic's premises. The clinic was located in Shastri Colony near Fountain Chowk in Yamunanagar City. 

Also read- Amritsar Doctor Arrested In Case Of Cheating, Forgery For Death Of Patient In 2018

According to the health department officials, the medicines were unfit for human consumption. It was alleged that the accused sold the medicine to the woman who is reportedly a decoy promising that she will give birth to a male child after the course of this medication. 

The incident came to light after a team of the health department including Dr Vipin Gondwal, deputy civil surgeon (PNDT) and Dr Shalini Saini, medical officer of Mukand Lal District Civil Hospital, Yamunanagar carried out a plan to nab the doctor acting on a tip-off.

They sent a decoy woman to the doctor under the pretext that she required medicine to give birth to a boy. When the woman met with the doctor, she gave him Rs 1000 for the medicines.

“The doctor took two notes of Rs 500 from the decoy after giving her medicines. During the raid, many types of allopathic drugs were also found stocked in clinic premises. The doctor was asked to produce a valid drug license or degree which allowed him to stock medicines and practice medicine using allopathic drugs. The doctor also failed to produce any purchase bills of allopathic drugs and other drugs possessed by him. No entry of decoy was made in the OPD register”, said Dr Vipin Gondwal in his complaint.

Yamunanagar City SHO inspector Jagdish Chander told TOI, "The doctor was produced before a duty magistrate on Wednesday, which sent him on a four-day police remand. A police team took the doctor to Chamba in Himachal Pradesh and Moga in Punjab for recovery of some items, which cannot be disclosed yet due to ongoing investigation."

Further investigation is underway.

Also read- Illegal Sex Determination Racket Busted In Gujarat, Doctor Arrested