Pune: Husbands of patients booked under PC-PNDT Act

"We noticed that Gade (Dr Tushar Gade from Mhaswad, Satara) and More ( Dr Hanumant More, from Malshiraj, Solapur), both of whom held Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) and Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) degrees, were performing a sonography on two women who already had female children. One woman confessed to having three, and the other, five daughters. They were forced by their husbands to undergo sonography, so that they do not give birth to a girl child again," Pune district civil surgeon Dr Sanjay Deshmukh told

Pune Mirror.

A source from the Pune division of PCPNDT department informed TOI, "The accused are now in Indapur police custody. They said they had bought a machine of Chinese make from an exhibition in Delhi for Rs 1.5 lakh and have been performing sex determination tests for the past one year or so. They charged couples between Rs 8,000 and Rs 10,000 for every sex determination test."

The authorities have now lodged an FIR under the PC-PNDT along and are planning to write to the MMC against the doctors on account of crosspathy. In what may be called as a landmark move, the authorities will also file a case against the husbands of the patients,  Vilas Dange and Popat Chavan in the court.