Chandigarh, July 19, 2015: A joint team of Haryana Health and Police Departments has, following a tip off, nabbed two doctors involved in conducting sex determination tests. The team has seized the machines being used for the test and also recovered about Rs 30,000 in cash from their possession.
While giving this information today, a spokesman of the Police Department said that secret information was received that one Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP) doctor who is resident of village Ghunkawali, district Sonepat, is indulged in carrying out sex determination test. He said that the doctor has been doing so with the help of other persons.
The team had approached RMP Dr. Jagdish Godara through a woman as a dummy patient and asked him to perform the test to which he agreed. The said woman was first asked to come to Dabwali and then she was taken to Ludhiana Piles Hospital located in Moga where he informed the lady that the test would be performed by B.A.M.S Dr. Sunit Mittal. The team of Police and Health Department nabbed Dr. Godara and Dr. Mittal from the spot and seized the machines and equipments being used for performing the test.
He said that a case has been registered against both doctors under PNDT Act and they would be taken on remand from court so that other persons indulged in this crime could be exposed./ (SK Vyas, Jalandhar)