Chandigarh, Feb. 28 -- Nine first information reports (FIRs) registered, six people arrested, and four medical shops sealed-that's the scale of Haryana's state-wide crackdown on the illegal sale and online supply of medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) kits over the past fortnight.

An MTP kit is a single pack of five tablets (containing one tablet of mifepristone and four tablets misoprotol) and both of these drugs are Schedule-H drugs, which cannot be sold without a prescription from a registered medical practitioner (RMP). The MTP Kit on its label/ packing bears a warning "to be only used under the direct supervision of a gynaecologist".

A health official said online supply of MTP kits to the consumers is strictly illegal. These dru...