Punjab: Authorities bust sex determination racket
Sultanpur Lodhi: In a crack down on illegal sex determination tests, five persons, including a woman and three medical practitioners , were arrested from Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala district of Punjab, officials said.
A three-member team, including medical officer Dr Pawan Chaudary, Dr Vipin Bhandari and Dr Mandeep Sachdeva raided the Amanpreet Hospital and found a lady doctor performing a sex-determination test on a woman on the complaint of Kapurthala health department , reports HT
On Kapurthala health department's complaint , police have booked seven persons, including Dr Sandeep Kaur, the duty doctor of the Amanpreet Hospital under sections 420 (fraud), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Pre-Conception and PreNatal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994.
Five others arrested are identified as Ashok Kumar, Virender, Rinkal, Shamsher Singh and Ravinder Pal Kaur, while efforts were on to nab Dr Sandeep Kaur and another accused Inderjit Singh who were still at large, an official release by the Health Department said.
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