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Popular Delhi-IVF Center raided, sealed in Bengali Market

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Popular Delhi-IVF Center raided, sealed in Bengali Market Updated: May 29, 2013 02:05 IST A team of the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC), constituted under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC & PNDT) Act, 1994, on Tuesday morning swooped down on Dr Anup Gupta’s Delhi IVF Center at Bengali Market and sealed the place. In a raid that lasted for eight hours, the team confiscated five ultrasound diagnostic machines and issued a show-cause notice to the IVF center. The team allegedly found non-compliance of the Act and irregularities in reporting of patient details who had undergone tests at the centre. The centre specialises in IVF,  surrogacy, egg donation, sperm banking, among other facilities. “The Act demands very strict compliance in reporting and 98% of the centres we seal is because of irregularities in their records. Here, we found inaccurate residential addresses, no details of children of the person undergoing a sca...