The Haryana Health Department on Monday busted an inter-state racket of conducting sex determination tests in Punjab’s ludhiana district. An official spokesperson said that the police has arrested three persons in this regard.
He said that Ashok Kumar, a resident of loh Simbli village on the Punjab border near Ambala and Praveen Kumar used to take women to ludhiana for performing sex determination test. Following a tip-off, the team of Health Department sent a decoy patient from whom Ashok demanded Rs20,000 for performing sex determination test.
later, the deal was finalized for Rs18,000 and he took the patient alongwith her relatives to ludhiana. The team of Health Department followed him in separate vehicles. After reaching there, Ashok asked the woman to accompany his partner, Mohammad Swaraj, for the test to be conducted at Bagga laboratory. After the two returned, the team nabbed Ashok Kumar, Mohammad Swaraj and Manmohan Pal, the laboratory attendant. The ludhiana Police registered a case against all the three and arrested them.
The spokesman said that so far four raids have been conducted in Ambala and neighboring states under PNDT Act. About 10 persons have been nabbed and cases have been got registered against them.
The team had earlier nabbed former MlA Ashok Kumar and his associates’ red-handed from Indri in a sex determination case, added the spokesperson.