DOCTOR, AMONG 3, HELD FOR FOETAL SEX DETERMINATION IN GURUGRAM

GURUGRAM: Three people, including a doctor, were arrested for allegedly running a prenatal sex determination racket after a health department team conducted a raid at an ultrasound clinic near Haileymandi on Pataudi road on Saturday, said police on Sunday.

Police said the racketeers charged around ₹75,000 per family/pregnant woman from Delhi, Jhajjar, Pataudi and other neighbouring areas for sex determination of the foetus after registering them with fake names at the clinic.

Police said that the health department had received information about the racket, following which a team was formed.

The health department set up a pregnant woman as a decoy customer and asked one of their clerks to play the role of her husband.

The team conducted a raid at the clinic on Saturday soon after the sex determination process was over and arrested three men.

According to police, the arrested doctor identified as Puneet Gupta, was the one who allegedly used to carry out ultrasonography of pregnant women inside the clinic while the two others, identified as Mahesh and Abhimanyu (known by their first names) were touts, who used to bring pregnant women to the clinic.

Inspector Rakesh Kumar, station house officer of Pataudi police station, said the suspects are in police remand for a day for interrogation and that they would be produced before a court on Monday.

“It will soon become clear since when they were running the racket and how many such sex-determination tests they have perfomed so far,” said Kumar.