LUCKNOW, Jan. 12 -- A case involving the alleged misuse of a Lucknow-based woman doctor's identity to obtain an ultrasound centre licence under the stringent Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, (PCPNDT Act) 1994, amended in 2003, has surfaced in Shravasti. The complainant has alleged inaction by authorities even a month after formally reporting the matter.

PCPNDT Act is a law to regulate prenatal diagnostic tests (like ultrasounds) to prevent misuse for determining foetal sex, allowing them only for detecting genetic/metabolic disorders, not for sex determination, with strict penalties for violations.

The doctor, who practises at her private hospital in Babuganj, Lucknow, claims that her name and medical degree were ...