Last Updated on September 13, 2020 by The Health Master
Palwal: An operation carried out by the district Health Department officials has led to the arrest of three persons involved in pre-natal sex determination racket. The team also recovered Rs 20,000 from the accused.
According to Civil Surgeon Dr Brahmdeep Singh, the raid was conducted after a tip-off that some persons, involved in the sex detection work take expectant mothers to a laboratory in Delhi or Uttar Pradesh for sex test against a payment ranging between Rs 40,000 and Rs 50,000.
He said a tout identified as Rajuddin told the woman to reach a private hospital in New Delhi. He said Rajuddin, who was present at the chosen spot in Delhi, made the decoy patient accompany one Manoj Kumar.
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Manoj took the woman to a spot in Loni area of Ghaziabad of UP. There, the woman was asked to accompany another youth identified as Gyan. He took her to a private laboratory in Ghaziabad where a test was done to reveal the sex of the unborn child.
As the decoy customer was brought back to the original spot in New Delhi by another person identified as Joginder, the health team which had been following the decoy customer nabbed Rajuddin, Joginder and Sunil and recovered the Rs 20,000 taken as advance from the woman. Gyan and Manoj, the two other accused, managed to flee.
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