Overview
- Mayor Sharmila Pimpalkar directed immediate checks of all IVF clinics and sonography centres within Thane Municipal Corporation limits.
- A special campaign targeting illegal sonography centres has been launched to enforce medical safety norms.
- Investigators reported that poor women were lured or coerced with money and hormonal injections to produce excess eggs later sold for large sums to childless couples.
- TMC’s health department raided the unauthorised IVF facility on March 6, cancelled its approval, and sealed three sonography machines.
- The mayor ordered weekly progress reports and continued enforcement as the probe into links from the Badlapur racket to Thane proceeds.