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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 stated 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.
"Action should be taken against the doctors and the patients who are not following this law. The celebrities or the rich and famous cannot get away with it."
Thakkar said that doctors proven to have divulged an unborn child's sex could face three years in jail and the suspension of their medical license for five years, while parents could face up to five years in jail.
India banned sex detection in 1996 as it attempted to prevent the abortions of girls.
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