Sex determination: Pvt hospital staffer held

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Sirsa, July 3

Hisar IG Anil Kumar Rao’s special staff raided a private hospital on Dabwali road here and arrested one of its staff members -Satish – in a case of sex determination test.

Satish is the second staffer of the hospital to be arrested by the police in the case after Jaibir was nabbed on Sunday.

A police party raided Aastha Hospital in search of Satish, whose name cropped up during interrogation of Jaibir and others arrested here on Sunday.

Inspector Jeet Singh had been in touch with Jaibir for some days to trap him after it came to their notice that he was involved in a big racket of sex determination tests.

The team contacted him with a decoy customer (a pregnant police officer) after he agreed to get her tested in Hisar.

Dr Rajnish Narula, owner of the hospital, said that Satish was arrested from outside his hospital as he had sacked the latter on June 30.

“Jaibir was on leave on Sunday citing some personal work. The next day I came to know about his arrest. I dismissed him immediately and when I got inkling that Satish too could be involved in the racket, I sacked him too on June 30,” he added.

I own two reputed hospitals in the town and both have registered ultrasound centres. However, we do not entertain any pregnant woman for any type of ultrasound tests, Dr Narula claimed.

Inter-state ramifications

IG Rao confirmed that an illegal MTP was conducted on a woman from Tohana. “The racket seems to have inter-state ramifications and functioned as a well- knit network. The probe so far indicated we have just touched the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Sources said that the involvement of doctors or who is the kingpin is being ascertained. “The accused have revealed that they were doing this for about two years and have so fact conducted 350 tests to find out the gender of the foetuses. “We have sought their mobile call details for one year to trace people who came into their contact during this period. We suspect that they had carried out a large number of abortions. The SIT is now trying to trace the women who underwent tests,” he said.