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Rewari chemist arrested for selling anti-abortion kits

The police on Sunday arrested a medical store operator, identified as Bir Singh of Rajpura Khalsa village here, for illegally selling medical termination pregnancy (MTP) kits. The accused was produced before a court which sent him to judicial custody. According...
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The police on Sunday arrested a medical store operator, identified as Bir Singh of Rajpura Khalsa village here, for illegally selling medical termination pregnancy (MTP) kits. The accused was produced before a court which sent him to judicial custody.

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According to the investigating officer, the Health Department received information that the accused was illegally selling MTP kits. Acting on this, on May 25, the department formed a team and conducted a raid at Yadav Medical Store at Kishangarh village. As part of a planned operation, the team sent a decoy customer to the medical store.

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The store operator allegedly sold the MTP kit to the decoy customer for Rs 1,000. Following this, the team caught him red-handed on the spot. Subsequently, the medical store was also sealed.

A case against Bir Singh under various sections of the MTP Act has been registered at the Sadar

police station.

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