Medical experts foil sex determination bid, 3 held

In a major breakthrough, a team of medical experts nabbed three persons who were about to conduct a Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique test (PNDT) on a pregnant women. The accused were nabbed from Najafgarh area in Delhi and an FIR was registered in Sushant Lok police station, Gurgaon.

The team comprised Dr Ramesh Dhankar, Chief Medical Officer at Gurgaon Civil Hospital, Amandeep Chauhan drug controller officer, Dr Saryu Sharma, DCS, and Shyam Sundar, secretary at Red Cross. Those nabbed are not doctors but are touts while the woman who operated the ultrasound machine.

The team planned it based on a tip-off where a man named Rajkumar Saini was acting as a tout for sex determination clinics. Witnesses including a pregnant woman in her late 20s and a woman posing as her mother-in-law were arranged. They contacted the tout to facilitate a sex determination test.

Saini agreed to get the tests done and asked the witnesses to come to Wazirabad with Rs 25,000.

The tout told the witnesses that a woman will meet them at Shiv Chowk in Sector 4.

The operation started at around 11 am on Thursday when the team reached the appointed spot. The tout arrived on a bike while later the woman came in a car. 

Then the other man and the woman boarded the car and headed towards Bakerwar village in Najafgarh area in Delhi.

In the village, the touts took the women to an isolated house and asked the mother-in-law to wait as they took the pregnant woman inside the kitchen.

The woman who was supposed to conduct the PNDT test was in her 40’s.

The team of the officials reached the spot and arrested the touts with the cash. However, the woman conducting the test managed to escape during the raid.

“It has been revealed during our investigations that the woman conducting the medical test was not even a high school pass. She learnt to operate the ultrasound machine while working under a doctor in a nursing home in Najafgarh. Also, she had an unregistered ultrasound machine which shows how it is turning into an organised crime,” said Dr Ramesh Dhankar, Chief Medical Officer in Civil Hospital Gurgaon.

A case was registered under the PNDT Act at Sushant Lok police station. Rajkumar Saini and Shoba have been detained, and Jitendra has been taken in remand.