A joint operation by police and well being division officers on Sunday in Ghaziabad led to arrest of two individuals who allegedly cheated individuals within the guise of conducting prenatal intercourse dedication checks at an unregistered facility being run as a hospital in Lal Kuan, senior officers mentioned on Monday.
Mamta Devi’s alleged function was to lure {couples} or pregnant ladies to the centre for conducting such checks and would cost something from ₹25,000-40,000 from every buyer. (Sakib Ali/HT Photograph)
Police mentioned upon receiving data that the power was conducting such unlawful checks, a decoy girl buyer was despatched there to lure its operators. Accordingly, two suspects — Hapur resident Mohammad Nazim, 35, and his confederate Vijay Nagar resident,Mamta Devi, 35 — had been arrested.
The officers mentioned two of their accomplices, recognized as Asha Devi and Sandeep Kumar, are on the run and might be arrested quickly.
“The health department and police acted upon information that prenatal sex determination tests were conducted at the hospital. which is not registered facility. They simply put up a board outside a residential flat to make it look like a hospital. None of the suspects is a medical practitioner, but they somehow had half-baked knowledge of conducting such tests,” mentioned Lipi Nagayach, assistant commissioner of police, Wave Metropolis.
The officers mentioned a decoy buyer girl together with a person posing as her husband had been despatched to the centre for taking over the check and suspect Mamta Devi charged her ₹22,000 for conducting the unlawful check.
“The suspects conducted the test with the help of scanning equipment and also disclosed the results to the couple. Soon, teams reached the spot and arrested the two suspects. An FIR was registered and teams are trying to trace the two absconding suspects. During interrogation, Nazim told police that he studied up to Class 10 and learned about operating the scanning equipment at an health-care facility,” Nagayach mentioned.
Police mentioned Mamta Devi’s function was to lure {couples} or pregnant ladies to the centre for conducting such checks and would cost something from ₹25,000-40,000 from every buyer. She would additionally assist ladies terminate pregnancies if the checks indicated that the unborn foetus was a woman, police mentioned.
Police have registered an FIR at Wave Metropolis police station on Monday below Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 61(2) (felony conspiracy), 318(4) (dishonest) and in addition levied completely different sections of the Medical Termination of Being pregnant (MTP) Act, 1971, the Nationwide Medical Fee Act and in addition the Prenatal Diagnostic Strategies (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act.
Police mentioned they recovered an ultrasound machine, a field containing MTP gear, medicines, a automobile, cast paperwork and ₹22,000 paid by the decoy buyer.