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Pune uncovers another illegal prenatal sex determination racket using mobile app and portable sonography

A fresh case of illegal prenatal sex determination using a mobile application and portable sonography equipment has been uncovered in Pune's Daund taluka. Health authorities have launched inspections and renewed calls for stricter regulation and a ban on the app allegedly used in the racket

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Another case of illegal prenatal sex determination has come forward in the Pune district in which a mobile application, along with portable sonography equipment, was used to carry out the process. Prenatal sex determination is strictly illegal in India under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act, 1994.

After a similar case was exposed in Shirur taluka in March, authorities have now found evidence of the same method during a recent crackdown in the Yavat area of Daund taluka.

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