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Four booked for sex determination tests
The officials sent a pregnant woman as a decoy with over Rs 8,000 cash to trap the offenders.
New Delhi: A doctor and two others were caught performing sex determination tests at a diagnostic centre in South Delhi by a team from Delhi’s Pre Conception and Pre-Natal Diag-nostic Technique (PC-PNDT) cell on Saturday.
The government, with the help from officials in Haryana’s Sonepat district, caught an MBBS sonologist, identified as Meenu Singh, and receptionist Santosh while conducting the ultrasound on a patient.
The officials in Delhi PC-PNDT received a tip-off on Friday about sex determination tests being performed at the family clinic in Jangpura, from their counterparts in Sonepat, following which a joint raid was conducted.
The officials sent a pregnant woman as a decoy with over Rs 8,000 cash to trap the offenders.
“We had sent her with cash to be given to the tout. Normal ultrasound costs around Rs 800-1,000 but they collected Rs 8,800 from the patient for determining the sex of the foetus. When we raided the clinic, the cash was found both on the tout and the receptionist. Moreover, the receptionist was conducting the ultrasound after the doctor had done it once, which is against the rules as only a certified doctor is allowed to touch the ultrasound mac-hines,” said Dr Shailaja Suri, a PC-PNDT official.
The owner of the clinic, radiologist Charu Kohli, is travelling abroad but has been booked by the police for the offence.
The ultrasound machine in the clinic has been sealed and the license of the clinic has been cancelled.
“An FIR has been registered under the PC-PNDT Act against four persons. We have taken photographs and submitted an inspection report to the district magistrate, citing the violations committed by the clinic for further action,” said the official.
