JAIPUR: The state PCPNDT Cell on Friday arrested a Jaipur-based doctor and a middleman from Jaipur for alleged involvement in sex determination through a decoy operation. The cell has also seized the sonography machine used in this and sonography records.
Naresh Thakral, National Health Mission (NHM) director said that they had specific inputs about a doctor’s involvement in sex determination at Superior Diagnostic Centre in Adarsh Nagar. “After verifying the information, we constituted a decoy team. The decoy pregnant woman was sent to the diagnostic centre as suggested by the doctor.”
The accused, identified as Dr Naresh Sharma, had demanded Rs 35,000 from the woman through his middleman identified as Pawan Jain for sex determination of the foetus. “After he clearly told the woman about the sex of the foetus our team arrested Dr Sharma and Jain from the spot and recovered the amount. We have also seized the sonography machine used to conduct sex determination and the record found on the spot. The investigation is on.
PCPNDT project director and additional SP Shalini Saxena said that any person can inform the department about sex determination on toll free numbers 104/108 or register on WhatsApp number at 9799997795.