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| Doctor sought over illegal scans |
| A top Indian gynaecologist has had her licence to practise suspended after a BBC report into female foeticide.
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| INDIA
, 6-December-2007
1:22:37 AM |
| Dr Mangala Telang was filmed offering an illegal ultrasound scan, although she denied any wrongdoing.
Indian health officials have now shut two Delhi clinics run by Dr Telang while they investigate the allegations.
Medically-assisted sex selection is illegal in the UK and in India, where an estimated seven million girls have gone missing over the past 25 years.
It is thought most were aborted because they were the wrong sex.
Getting rid of baby girls is a practice that is so widespread in some parts of India that it has dramatically skewed the ratio of males to females.
Indians often view a girl child as inferior to a boy. A bride's dowry can also cripple a family financially.
Court case
India's Department of Health has ordered both of Dr Telang's clinics in Delhi to be shut.
Senior health official Kal Singh told the BBC that Dr Telang's licence had been suspended under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques act.
"I've instructed officials to file a case in court - which will take one or two days," he said.
"We went to her premises but found the clinic locked - so we sealed it and gave notice for Dr Telang to report to us within 2-3 days in order to give her explanation.
"We will need more evidence, and to examine the records kept in the clinics."
The BBC Asian Network investigation was intended to test anecdotal reports that a number of British Indians had travelled to India in order to have selective abortions.
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