Pregnancy
Police had investigated 17 accused, including medical practitioners, donor agents, their associates, and persons allegedly involved in forging donor identity and medical documents. Police had filed a chargesheet in the case in May before a Kalyan court under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, and the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. It was found that many financially vulnerable women were exploited.
Individuals associated with sonography centres, IVF/ART centres, suppliers of hormonal injections, and those involved in preparing forged documents, who were earlier investigated by police, are under the ED scanner.
ED’s money-laundering case is based on an FIR lodged by Badlapur East police in Feb after a complaint by the chief medical officer of Badlapur Sub-District Hospital about an illegal IVF/ART centre operating from a residential flat.