HYDERABAD: A day after police along with district health officials sealed a hospital and a scanning centre for violating norms and carrying out sex determination tests, a doctor at the scanning centre has reportedly confessed that he had conducted 75 sex determination tests and revealed gender of the foetus.
Dr Gandhi, who owns
Sujatha Scanning Centre at
Krishnanagar in
Yousufguda, was booked under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act for revealing the sex of the foetus. The doctor apparently had no qualms in accepting that he conducted tests and revealed the sex . He didn’t see anything wrong in doing so, sources said.
Dr Gandhi charged only a nominal fee compared to others. The scanning centre had a valid licence, Jyothi Reproductive Health Care Centre, Ameerpet, which offered medical termination of pregnancy, also had licence. Under PCPNDT Act, revealing the sex and aborting a female foetus were both crimes.
(Representative image)