UP cancels license of Agra doctor accused of sex-determination
The PCPNDT monitoring cell in Lucknow has cancelled the license of Dr. Amit Ultrasound center and now a drive will be conducted across Uttar Pradesh to nab such ultrasound centers that are engaging in the illegal practice of sex-determination.
In Short
- License of Dr. Amit Ultrasound center has been cancelled for engaging in illegal sex determination.
- Doctors connected to Dr. Amit Gupta are also being tracked down.
- Any center engaged in such activity will be shut down immediately under the PCPNDT act.
Acting on the story done by India Today on illegal sex-determination racket flourishing in Agra , the PCPNDT monitoring cell in Lucknow has cancelled the license of Dr. Amit Ultrasound center and now a drive will be conducted across Uttar Pradesh to nab such ultrasound centers that are engaging in this illegal practice. Any center engaged in such activity will be shut down immediately and its operators would be sent to jail under the PCPNDT act.
Agra Chief Medical Officer Dr. B S Yadav said that the doctors connected to Dr. Amit Gupta are also being tracked down and for that, the diary maintained by Dr. Amit is expected to come handy. The diary lists all the doctors connected to this illegal trade, but since it was in code, an expert from Lucknow has been called to decode this diary and help in the arrest of the culprits.
SOCIAL CRIME
Social activist Deep Sharma told India Today that besides being a crime in the eyes of the law, sex-determination of an unborn foetus is also a social crime, yet a lot of people all over India are engaging in this illegal act in the hope of a male child. He said that such corrupt doctors have given rise to incidents of female foeticide as abortion is the first step most such men take when they discover that the unborn child their wife is carrying is a girl. He said that if such doctors are given strict punishment for their crime, this practice will soon come to an end.