Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 8

A joint team of the Ambala and Ludhiana health officials late on Saturday evening conducted a sting operation at a scanning centre. Surprisingly, no scan machine was found at the centre. Three persons, including a woman, who were said to be running the centre, were minting money by befooling people.

On Sunday, the three accused were arrested and an FIR has been registered against them. They were sent to police remand for two days. The accused were identified as Gurnam Kaur from Jaghera village, Lakhwinder Singh from Dehlon and Gurjant Singh from Dharamkot, who is the nephew of Gurnam Kaur.

The modus operandi adopted by the accused was that they had a laptop and a recorded video of ultrasound done for sex determination. They would simply put a wire around patient’s abdomen and run the recorded video. Without actually conducting the test, they would tell the gender of the child.

An investigation team was formed by Deputy Director, PNDCT, Ambala Health Department, Dr Kulwinder Kaur, on a tip-off. Later, a dummy patient was sent for the test and the accused took the former to Jaghera village and a fake test was conducted. On Saturday evening, the health team raided the centre during which a laptop and other material were seized by the department. A sum of Rs 12,500 given by the dummy patient to the suspects was also seized by the department on the spot. Later in the evening, the police were called on the spot and a complaint was filed.

The woman was also involved in a case in which she was duping people by conducting fake ultrasounds in the past. In September 2020, a raid was conducted by a team of the Haryana Health Department during which she was found guilty.

Accused sent to two-day police remand