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Doc couple caught testing sex of fetus

AGRA: The Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) cell of

Agra

on the direction of district magistrate NG Ravi Kumar raided a nursing home in RK Puram on Monday and caught a

doctor couple

red-handed while they were conducting a sex determination test.


An FIR was being filed at Tajganj police station against the doctor couple at the time of filing this report. An

ultrasound

machine used at the nursing home has also been seized.

The PSPNDT cell sent a decoy from Fatehabad town in

Agra district

to the nursing home and she was assured that a test would be conducted to determine the sex of her fetus for Rs 18,000.

“On the directives of the DM, a decoy was used to catch the doctor couple red-handed at their nursing home in RK Puram locality while conducting the illegal sex determination test," said Dr Virendra Bharti, additional chief medical officer acting as nodal officer for Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques cell in Agra.

Agra’s clinics and nursing homes have become infamous for conducting illegal sex determination tests. Earlier, the PSPNDT cell from Rajasthan had conducted raids on nursing homes in Agra.

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