A team of Haryana Health Department has busted an alleged illegal sex determination racket being run at a hospital in Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab.
Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula, Gauri Prashar Joshi, said that acting on a tip-off, the team of the District Administration sent a decoy customer to Mahesh Hospital in Fatehgarh Sahib after establishing coordination with Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the district concerned. The team then conducted a raid after the hospital staff conducted illegal sex determination test and caught them red-handed with the amount paid by the decoy customer for the test. Cash amounting to Rs 10,000 and Rs 7,000 was recovered from doctor and tout, respectively. During the raid, the team also discovered that the clinic was not registered. She said that at the time of filing this news, FIR was being registered against the doctor, a helper and two touts.
Further investigation is underway, she added.