Private clinic busted for conducting sex test in Panchkula

PANCHKULA: A team of health department has raided a private clinic for allegedly committing sex determination tests at Swastika Vihar, Mansa Devi Complex.

Doctors said violations of PNDT (Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques), MTP (Medical Termination of Pregnancy) and Drug and Cosmetic Act were detected at the "Siddharth Clinic" headed one Dr Shyam Sunder.

Dr Parvinderjit Singh, nodal officer, PNDT, said most of the patients forms were found incomplete or signed by operators and doctor. List of patients was partially filled.

The display board of the clinic stated "infertility, gynae and ultrasound" but it was not approved by the authorities. The team found medicines used to perform sperm washing, a procedure for which it did not have any permission. The team also detected huge quantity of MTP kits. The clinic was later sealed and cops called.

Police registered a case under sections 5, 6, 29, 3, 4, 18, 3A of PC, PNDT and MTP Act, rule 8, 18/27 of Drug and Cosmetic Act and under sections 415 (cheating) and 417 (punishment for cheating) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Mansa Devi Complex police station.

On February 18, the health department caught a quack after sending a decoy patient at his fake health centre in Sector 4. The quack was offering medicines claiming they would help in delivering a male child. He was booked under the PNDT Act.

On July 5, 2016, a couple was arrested for allegedly carrying out abortions illegally following a joint raid by a team of health department of Panchkula and Chandigarh in Mauli Jagran .