JAWED ALAM Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner is running two scanning centres under the same name, one at Garhshankar in District Hoshiarpur, and the other at Banga in District S.B.S. Nagar. It is the case of the petitioner that he has received a notice dated 28.04.2014 from the Senior Medical Officer, Garhshankar, who is the appropriate authority under the Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, and the Rules framed thereunder, seeking explanation from the petitioner as to how he is running two scanning centres in two Districts, which is not permissible under the Rules framed under the Act. Copy of the said notice has been annexed with the petition as Annexure P-8.

(2.) Learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn the attention of this court towards Rule 3(3) of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules, 1996, inserted vide notification dated 04.06.2012, with effect from 05.06.2012, which reads as under:--