In its bid to check female foeticide and quacks, Haryana Food and Drug Administration has arrested three doctors from Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district for violation of Pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (PCPNDT) Act and Medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) Act.
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration Dr Rakesh Gupta said the doctors were caught on the basis of data in the dairy, which was recovered from Manju, an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife at Bahadurgarh who was arrested by the police recently. The doctors who were caught on Saturday included Dr Arpita, Dr Jagdish Dhankar and Dr Naveen Aggarwal.
Dr Gupta said it was found that Dr Naveen was working at four ultrasound centres in different districts and his own ultra sound centre was being run by his wife Dr Arpita at Ballabhgarh, district Faridabad which was also raided and sealed after detection of major violation of PC-PNDT Act.
He said Bhagat, a quack arrested recently gave information about Dr Mahesh Garg who was running an Ultra sound Centre at Sector-2, Rohini at Delhi. He said Bhagat used to get sex determination test done from Dr Garg. To arrest Dr Garg red-handed, a trap was laid by Senior Drug Control Officer Manmohan Taneja and a decoy patient namely Sonia, a pregnant woman was taken for ultrasound to Garg who conducted the ultrasound and confirmed male child. He was arrested on the spot by Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Saraswati Vihar, Mani Bhushan Malhotra while taking Rs 6,000 from the woman. The money which currency notes’ number was already noted was seized from him.