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Ambala man held for conducting pre-natal test
The raid was conducted by a joint team of Ambala and Kharar health departments on Saturday and the accused, who demanded ₹20,000 for the illegal test, was handed over to the police
An Ambala resident has been arrested for conducting a sex determination test at a private diagnostic centre in Kharar, officials said on Sunday.
The raid was conducted by a joint team of Ambala and Kharar health departments on Saturday and the accused was handed over to the police.
According to the officials, they received a tip-off about illegal pre-natal tests being done by the Ambala man, following which they sent a decoy customer to the accused, identified as Rakesh Kumar. He told the woman that the test would be conducted at a private clinic in Kharar.
Deputy civil surgeon and nodal officer for Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT), Dr Balwinder Kaur, said that a deal to conduct the sex determination test was fixed at ₹20,000 with the tout, out of which ₹10,000 were paid by the decoy in advance.
“However, the man was caught red-handed by our team and ₹8,500 were recovered from him and ₹1,500 from the diagnostic centre,” said Kaur.
Kharar station house officer Ashok Kumar said a case has been registered against Rakesh Kumar under Sections 4, 5, 6 23, 29 of the PCPNDT Act and Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code.
