Doctor booked for ‘sex determination tests’

A female doctor was detained and her clinic raided for allegedly conducting sex determination tests, a district health official said on Wednesday.

Renuka Shah, who runs a clinic near the Jamnagar Civil Hospital, allegedly conducted a sex determination test to determine the gender of the child a woman was carrying, the official said.

When a team of district health officials raided her clinic, it was found that she had taken Rs 10,000 from the woman despite test reports confirming that the woman was carrying a dead child.

District health officials also found that Schedule F, a form that is mandatory to be filled before conducting the tests, was also not filled, adding that the sonography machine used for conducting the tests was also seized.

A case has been lodged against the doctor at the woman's police station in the city. Shah has been booked under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act and further investigation is on.

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