JUDGMENT

Jasjit Singh Bedi, J. - The present petition has been filed under Section 482 Cr.PC. for quashing of case FIR No.05 dated 03.01.2016 registered under Sections 3-A, 5, 6 and 23 of PNDT Act, 1994 and Rule 9(4) & 9 (1) of PC PNDT Rules, 1996 and Sections 120-B IPC at Police Station City Khanna, District Ludhiana (Annexure P-1).

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner was running a hospital in the name and style of Jeevan Eye & Maternity Hospital at City Khanna, District Ludhiana along with Dr. Jagjivan Sood. The hospital was registered under the PC & PNDT Act, 1994 and the registration was being renewed periodically from time to time.

3. The District Appropriate Authority, Ambala-cum-Civil Surgeon received a secret information from some source that sex determination of pregnant ladies was being done by one Smt. Meenakshi (Asha Worker) in connivance with other touts of District Patiala by charging a sum of Rs.25,000/-. The DDA, Ambala asked one Dharamveer Sharma who was working as an Adolescent Health Worker at CHC, Chaurmastpur (Ambala) to contact Smt. Meenakshi for getting the sex of a foetus determined.

4. The prosecution case thereafter is that Smt. Meenakshi ag