Two doctors sent to jail for propagating sex determination tests

Two doctors were awarded three years imprisonment by a local court here for propagating sex determination tests, banned under Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (prohibition of sex selection) Act.

Dr Chhaya Tated, a homoeopath from Aurangabad and Dr Shubhangi Adkar, who runs a private maternity and nursing home at Dadar here, were recently found guilty of violating the Act, in a case filed against them five years back.

Dr Tated had published an advertisement offering "special treatment to those who wanted a baby (boy)". She used to come to nursing home of Dr Adkar to practice twice in a month.

Both the doctors pleaded leniency but the court turned their plea saying although they were respectable members of the society, they had committed a serious crime.

The magistrate RV Jambkar held, "When such persons commit offences that are not only heinous but against the existence of the society. They are not entitled to leniency, because by their act, they have encouraged determination of sex of a female foetus to prevent such pregnancy".

The complaint against them was filed in November...