A well-known radiologist, who is also an honorary official of the Delhi Medical Association, was on Saturday arrested along with five others for allegedly conducting sex determination tests at his Dwarka clinic. The arrested persons include touts, middlemen and two women who had come for a test. They were nabbed following a joint raid by the Delhi and Haryana government teams. It is alleged that Dr. X, who was running X Diagnostic Centre in Dwarka, had been conducting these illegal tests for years.
Most of his clients were women from neighbouring Haryana where the sex ratio is already skewed. Officials suspect that Dr. X could be part of a larger racket involving other doctors. “A decoy pregnant lady brought by the Haryana team and another lady who came there on her volition underwent sex determination test, violating pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic test (PC and PNDT) law and…
