Patiala, June 14 -- A team of the Patiala health department has claimed to have busted a sex determination racket with the arrest of accused Meena Rani and her accomplice Jarnail Singh. Rani, a former employee of the health department, has now been arrested for the fifth time in 11 years for allegedly violating the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act.

The duo was arrested during a raid conducted by the Patiala health department team led by district family planning officer (DFPO) Dr Balkar Singh and local police.

Rani had earlier worked as an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) under the National Health Mission (NHM), Punjab. Besides Punjab, she has also been booked by the Haryana Police. According to Punjab Police...