Sex determination test machine seized from Ludhiana village during raid

LUDHIANA: Health department officials seized a sex determination test machine from a village in Ludhiana during a raid.
Civil surgeon Dr Parvinderpal Singh Sidhu told TOI that acting on a tip-off, a joint raid was conducted at village Jartauli by teams from Ludhiana and Haryana's Kaithal district on Thursday.
He said that one Amarjit Singh alias Gurpreet, son of Karnail Singh, was conducting illegal sex determination tests from his house with the help of his wife Amandeep Kaur.
Sidhu said that during the raid, the teams found that one Sukhwinder Kumar, a resident of Patiala, had brought a pregnant woman for sex determination test to the house and Amandeep Kaur had taken an amount of Rs 20,000 as fee from the woman for the test.
Health department officials caught both Amarjit Singh and Sukhwinder Kumar from the spot and recovered Rs 20,000 from their possession. However, Amarjit's wife Amandeep managed to flee from the spot.
The team handed over the duo to the police and confiscated the cash, a laptop and sex determination test machine. A case number 271 under section 420 of IPC and under section 5(2) of PCPNDT Act has been registered at the Sadar police station.