Mumbai: A local court here has awarded three
years imprisonment to two doctors 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 R V 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 2004
by a ward officer of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
on the basis of an advertisement issued by Dr Tated who
described herself as "foreign return" offering specialised
treatment at Dadar nursing home and in Aurangabad.
Bureau Report
