JUDGMENT

Vinod S. Bhardwaj, J. (Oral) - Instant petition has been filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.104, dated 10.05.2022 under Sections 2, 3, 3-A, 4, 5, 6, 23 and 29 of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 and Rules 3(3), 4, 9, 10, 18 (1 to 20) and Section 420 & 120-B of of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, registered at Police Station Jhansa, District Kurukshetra.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner inter alia contends that the FIR in question has been registered on the basis of a secret information to the effect that one Sukhwinder Kaur alongwith other co- accused is involved in conducting sex determination test of the foetus of pregnant women. A PNDT team was accordingly constituted by the Civil Surgeon, Kurukshetra and a decoy was sent to Saharanpur. One Babita and the co-accused Sukhwinder Kaur went alongwith the decoy customer in the car, where they met the petitioner, who is alleged to have taken money from Sukhwinder Kaur. The petitioner is stated to have led the decoy customer to the house where the sex determination test wa