Capt Amarinder orders crackdown on sex determination centres
Wednesday, 19/04/2017
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Chandigarh : Taking a serious note of the illegal sex determination issue raised by his Haryana counterpart, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has ordered a crackdown on all sex determination centres alleged to be running in the state.
On Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s appeal to deal firmly with illegal sex determination centres, Amarinder directed the state Health Department to take immediate and stern action against all such activity, according to an official spokesperson.
The Chief Minister has made it clear to the department officials that any laxity would be treated as complicity, and has warned that strict action would be taken against those found guilty of negligence in acting against such centres.
Amarinder has also directed the police to extend full cooperation to the Health Department in conducting surprise raids to identify health centres flouting the law to undertake sex determination tests.
Recalling that he had come down heavily on all such centres during his previous tenure, Amarinder said his government would once again go all out to save the girl child by cracking the whip on all illegal sex scan centres. Doctors, nurses, ancillary medical staff and others found involved in the conduct of illegal tests of this kind would be booked immediately, followed by exemplary punishment, he warned.
The Chief Minister has also taken cognizance of the media report stating that the Haryana government’s health department had conducted nearly two dozen raids across Punjab’s districts to identify several illegal scan centres over the past two years. Terming this as a serious matter, the Chief Minister said the total lawlessness prevailing under the erstwhile SAD-BJP rule had led to this situation, which his government was now working hard to amend.
