Sex Determination Racket: PCPNDT Cell arrests a doctor, nurse and middlemen
Rajasthan: In an inter-state decoy operation, the Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Cell (PCPNDT) cell has busted a active sex determination and illegal abortion racket in Jaipur and Agra.
A lady doctor, a nurse and two middlemen were allegedly involved in the racket. Along with booking the doctor, nurse and two middlemen, police has also seized a sonography machine and Rs 30,000 cash.
"The accused were identified as Dr Vidhya Gupta(55), Manorama(44) and two middlemen including Ramkishor Yadav(44) and Prabhu Dayal," a senior officer of PCPNDT cell of the department told TOI.
The said crime came into light when after Ram Kishore, a resident of Itimad-ud-daula and compounder at a private hospital in Rajasthan, and agent Prabhu Dayal of Dholpur district in Rajasthan were arrested. Post this,the PC-PNDT officials made a plan to bust the racket and a decoy pregnant lady was taken by an agent to the nursing home for a sex determination test. The PCPNDT officials then raided the nursing home and busted the racket.
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