Sex determination tests: Gurgaon health department officials detain 3

The team planned the operation after it received a tip-off about a man, identified as Rajkumar Saini, working as a tout for sex determination clinics.

A team of medical experts from the Gurgaon health department has detained three people who were allegedly about to conduct a pre-natal diagnostic techniques test (PNDT). The accused were nabbed from Najafgarh area and an FIR was registered in Sushant Lok police station, Gurgaon.

The team comprised Dr Ramesh Dhankar, chief medical officer at Gurgaon Civil Hospital, Amandeep Chauhan, drug control officer, Dr Saryu Sharma, drug control officer and Shyam Sundar, secretary at Red Cross.

The accused detained by the team are not doctors but touts, said sources.

The team planned the operation after it received a tip-off about a man, identified as Rajkumar Saini, working as a tout for sex determination clinics. They used ‘shadow witnesses’, a pregnant woman in her late 20s and a woman posing as her mother-in-law, to lay a trap for the touts.