A team of Hisar health department, on Wednesday, caught a woman tout with Rs 5,000 in Shimlapuri on the charge of conducting sex-determination tests. Her operator, however, managed to escape with the rest of the money.
The woman tout was running an illegal clinic, from where the department team recovered a portable ultrasound machine and medicines for medical termination of pregnancy (MTP), among others.
Hisar PNDT nodal officer Dr Anamika Bishnoi said, “We had received a secret information about a gang running a sex-determination test racket in Ludhiana. This was communicated to senior officials and a team was formed. The team sent a decoy pregnant woman for sex-determination test. The team cracked down when the woman tout and her operator took the pregnant woman for sex-determination test.”
Earlier, on September 23, too, the Hisar health department team had caught a woman tout in Ludhiana on the similar charge.