Doctor arrested for illegal gender determination tests at Telangana hospital

The incident dates back four months, when a pregnant woman from Maharashtra’s Latur, travelled to Kamareddy to undergo a gender determination test.

A government doctor was arrested on Friday for allegedly conducting illegal gender determination tests at a private hospital in Telangana’s Kamareddy district.

The arrest was made by Maharashtra police at Samanyita Hospital in Sriram Nagar Colony, where Dr Praveen allegedly performed the test on a pregnant woman from Maharashtra.

The incident dates back four months, when a pregnant woman from Maharashtra’s Latur, travelled to Kamareddy to undergo a gender determination test.

After discovering the foetus was female, the woman is believed to have undergone an abortion at a hospital in Maharashtra.