First Time in India Husbands Face Charge over Sex Determination Test

Two men have been imprisoned to carry out love-making determination tests in Pune -- a town in the Indian state of Maharashtra. They were found red-handed inside a car together with the doctors who were carrying lightweight machines for the test.

Every one of them have recently been booked under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Methods (PCPNDT) Act, 1994. This kind of is the first time in India that partners of pregnant women have been booked under the Act as earlier only doctors had to face the consequences of executing the prenatal sex dedication test, which is restricted in India.

The partners, Vilas Dange and Popat Chavan, were caught during a regular police patrol at a road in Indapur, a town and a municipal council in Pune. It was found that their wives, Sunita Vilas Dange and Balika Popat Chavan, were having tests to determine the gender with their expected children, inside the auto. Medical professional Hanumant More and Medical professional Tushar Gade, the two doctors performing the test, were also held.

[caption id="attachment_173" align="aligncenter" width="736"] Two husbands along with the doctors have been booked under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, for carrying out sex determination tests[/caption]

"We noticed that Gade (from Mhaswad, Satara) and Even more (from Malshiraj, Solapur), both of whom held Bachelors of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) and Bachelors of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) degrees, were performing a sonography on two girls that already got female children.

"One girl confessed to using 3, and the other, five daughters. They were required by their husbands to undergo sonography, so that they do not give birth to a young lady child again, " Pune district civil surgeon Doctor Sanjay Deshmukh told Pune Mirror.

After initial analysis, it was also uncovered that the 2 doctors were not practising physicians.

"We have not only recorded a police complaint regarding violation of the PCPNDT Act, but we can also be writing to the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) regarding these alternate remedy professionals, who had been disguising as sonologists and cheating patients. We suspect is actually a chain, " Medical professional Eknath Chandanshive, medical superintendent of Indapur sub-district clinic, said.

He added that the case would be submitted in court against the husbands. "This will be the first time that along with the doctors, husbands can also be booked under the Behave as they were the ones who pressured their wives to undertake the tests, " Chandanshive said.

"The accused are now in Indapur authorities custody. They said that they had bought a machine of Chinese make from an exhibition in Delhi for Rs 1. 5 lakh [Rs150,000, £1,706, $2,246] and get performing gender determination tests for the past one year or so. They charged lovers between Rs 8,000 and Rs 10, 000 for each and every sex determination test, " a source advised the publication.

"We think there may be many such machines being brought in. We checked with these doctors. Their machine has not been registered and they also lacked any centre back again home. Being doctors of alternate therapy, we were holding not only misusing tools and acting as doctors, but also cheating patients.

"The accused came buying a less dangerous destination to conduct quality and landed up in Pune district's circle. We think there are many such machines in the condition; we need to have a thorough investigation, inch Megha Sontale, advocate and legal advisory, Pune division's PCPNDT department, said.