India, Sept. 10 -- Officials from the Delhi Drugs Control Department (DDCD) fanned out across the city on three-day undercover mission in the past week where they visited retail chemists selling medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) kits without prescriptions. Their findings were alarming - more than a quarter of chemists inspected sold the kits illegally.

Between September 5 and 7, an undercover team posed as customers and visited pharmacies across the city, including areas such as Badarpur, Jasola, Kalkaji, Pul Pehladpur, Laxmi Nagar, Ghonda, Moujpur, Rohini, Pitampura, Shalimar Bagh, Uttam Nagar, Budh Vihar, Rithala, Madipur, Hari Nagar, and Nangloi. Out of 157 chemists checked - including those located close to hospitals and nursing...