5 held for illegal sex-determination test

In a crack down on illegal sex determination test, five persons, including a woman, were arrested from Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala district of Punjab, officials said today.
Ashok Kumar, Virender, Rinkal, Shamsher Singh and Ravinder Pal Kaur were arrested, while efforts were on to nab Dr Sandeep Kaur and another accused Inderjit Singh who were still at large, an official release by the Health Department said.
Among those arrested, two persons belong to Ambala Cantt, while the others are from Ludhiana, Civil Surgeon Dr Vinod Gupta said.
On a tip-off that Ashok Kumar and Virender Singh took women to Punjab for getting the sex determination test done for Rs 25,000, a team of the Health Department, assisted by the police, sent a decoy patient who contacted the duo.

The decoy patient was asked to reach Kalka Chowk at 5 PM, from where she was taken to Ludhiana, where they met the other accused Rinkal, Shamsher Singh and Ravinder Pal.
The accused took her to a private hospital at Sultanpur Lodhi where sex determination test was allegedly conducted by Dr Sandeep Kaur, they said.
A case has been registered against the accused at Sultanpur Lodhi police station under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act.