<p class="title">A court here sentenced three doctors to three years in jail in a 2009 sex-determination and female foeticide case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Prachi Patel on Monday convicted Sushma Trivedi, Sandhya Tiwari and SK Shrivastava under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, public prosecutor Ritesh Goyal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The doctors were given three years imprisonment and the court slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on two of them -- Sandhya Tiwari and SK Shrivastava -- for running clinics without legal permission, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Goyal said a Delhi-based social organisation called 'Beti Bachao Samiti' had conducted a sting operation separately on these three doctors in May 2009.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the sting operation, these doctors agreed to carry out sex-determination and female foeticide procedures in their clinics, Goyal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Delhi-based organisation approached the district collector with the recording of the sting operation, who directed the chief medical and health officer (CMHO) to file a case against the three doctors under the PCPNDT Act, he informed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court found them guilty under section 23 of the PCPNDT Act, which prohibits sex selection and use of pre-natal diagnostic techniques, Goyal said, adding that the doctors pleaded for leniency claiming that they had committed the offense for the first time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prosecution, however, contended that only imposing fine would send a wrong signal to society. </p>
<p class="title">A court here sentenced three doctors to three years in jail in a 2009 sex-determination and female foeticide case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Prachi Patel on Monday convicted Sushma Trivedi, Sandhya Tiwari and SK Shrivastava under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, public prosecutor Ritesh Goyal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The doctors were given three years imprisonment and the court slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on two of them -- Sandhya Tiwari and SK Shrivastava -- for running clinics without legal permission, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Goyal said a Delhi-based social organisation called 'Beti Bachao Samiti' had conducted a sting operation separately on these three doctors in May 2009.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the sting operation, these doctors agreed to carry out sex-determination and female foeticide procedures in their clinics, Goyal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Delhi-based organisation approached the district collector with the recording of the sting operation, who directed the chief medical and health officer (CMHO) to file a case against the three doctors under the PCPNDT Act, he informed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court found them guilty under section 23 of the PCPNDT Act, which prohibits sex selection and use of pre-natal diagnostic techniques, Goyal said, adding that the doctors pleaded for leniency claiming that they had committed the offense for the first time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The prosecution, however, contended that only imposing fine would send a wrong signal to society. </p>