Bollywood star in baby sex selection controversy

A Bollywood star is facing a storm of controversy over the sex of his unborn child.
India’s Health Ministry has launched an investigation into media reports that the actor Shah Rukh Khan and his wife are expecting a boy through a surrogate mother.

Sex determination tests are banned in India, and elsewhere in Asia, due to a traditional preference for sons.
Dr Jignesh Thakkar of the Indian Radiological & Imaging Association told CNN that India’s Health Ministry had investigated the case at the association’s request.

“We wanted to know how this had been leaked out because it’s confidential information that only a doctor and not even a patient knows,” said Thakkar, who is the association’s coordinator for the Pre-Conception Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act that bans sex selection.

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