Chandigarh, Feb. 13 -- Two Uttar Pradesh-based online pharmacy owners were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly supplying medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) kits to Gurugram following a joint operation by Haryana's Police and health department, which also seized 227 kits of the drug that cannot be sold without a prescription from a registered gynaecologist.

The arrests come in the wake of Haryana recording its lowest sex ratio at birth in eight years in 2024. The sex ratio at birth, a critical indicator of gender equality, had dipped to 910 female births per 1,000 male births in 2024, a six-points drop from 916 in 2023 and the lowest after 2016, when it stood at 900, triggering concerns.

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