Doctor, agents nabbed for carrying out sex determination tests

A team of cops and heath officials today arrested a city-based gynaecologist along with his three agents, including a woman, for allegedly conducting gender determination tests, police said today.
"Yesterday, we arrested gynaecologist Paresh Sheth and his three aides from his clinic at Sheth Hospital at Shah-Aalam toll naka area here for conducting gender determination tests," police inspector K R Dabhi said.
Along with Sheth, his agents Shakina Mansuri, Ashok Patel and Haresh Goswami were also booked under the charges of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act 1994, Dabhi said.
According to the police, the four were caught in a sting operation carried out by a joint team led by Ahmedabad District Development Officer Bhargavi Dave, Central District Health Officer Shilpa Yadav and ACP Kanan Desai of Women's Crime Branch in the city.

Sheth's aide Shakina used to bring women who wanted to get gender determination test conducted, while Ashok Patel was the middlman between the doctor and his client, Dabhi said, adding that Goswami was a rickshaw driver who used to bring Sheth's clients in his rickshaw.
The doctor also used code words to inform his clients about the gender of the foetus in the womb.
"Good news" meant a male foetus, while, "There is problem" meant that the foetus was female, the police officer said.
All four accused were today produced before the court and were sent for a two-day police custody, she added.