Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994–Sec. 30–Notification dt. 07.11.2013–Power to search and seize the records etc.–Appropriate Authority–Who is ?–The Appropriate Authority for the District consists of the Civil Surgeon, the District Program Officer of the Woman and Child Development Department, and the District Attorney–The Civil Surgeon is the Chairman of the Appropriate Authority–Only the Chairman or any other member acting alone cannot authorize search under Sec. 30(1)–It must be a decision of Appropriate Authority–If a single member of the Appropriate Authority authorizes a search, it will be completely illegal being contrary to Sec. 30(1)–No legal decision was made by Appropriate Authority in terms of Sec. 30(1) to search for the appellant’s clinic–Search was illegal–Further, the seizure memo contains the names of three members, however, the latter addressed by Civil Surgeon records that the team was comprised of four members–FIR for the offence deserves to be quashed.
