THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL PETITION No.7411 of 2022

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This Criminal Petition is filed by the petitioners-

accused Nos.1 to 6 seeking to quash the proceedings against them in C.C.No.2394 of 2022 on the file of the learned XI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Secunderabad, registered for the violation of Rules 9 and 10 of the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Rules, 1996 (for short ‘Rules 1996’) and Rule 13 of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1996 (for short ‘the PNDT Act’) and for the offence under Section 23 of the PNDT Act, 1996.

02. Heard Mr.A.Prabhakar Ravo, learned counsel for the petitioners-accused Nos.1 to 6 and Mrs.S.Madhavi, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor for State-respondent No.1. No representation on behalf of the respondent No.2. Perused the record.

03. Brief facts of the case are that the accused No.1 is the Registered Diagnostic Service Centre Hospital under the name and style of M/s.Parkline Diagnostic Services represented by the accused No.2-Director, the accused Nos.3 to 6 are Doctors (Radiologists) working in the accused No.1-