Police bust illegal sex determination racket

Hyderabad: In a decoy operation, the Special Operations Team (SOT) sleuths of Malkajgiri commissionerate, along with Vanasthalipura police, have busted an illegal sex-determination racket operating across two medical facilities in the city.

Police booked three accused, including a hospital director, and issued them notices.Acting on a specific alert regarding illegal sex-determination tests being conducted at Hayagreeva Hospital in Vanasthalipuram, SOT sleuths planned a decoy operation and sent a woman constable to the facility, posing as a patient, on Friday afternoon.“Hayagreeva Hospital’s director, Korra Raju, and receptionist Lokesh assured the woman constable that arrangements could be made for a sex-determination test. The duo referred her to their associate, Vijay Kumar, a lab technician at a clinic in Tukkuguda, to perform an ultrasound scan to determine the unborn child’s gender,” Vanasthalipuram inspector S Ravi Babu said.Acting on the information, police launched a follow-up decoy operation at Sri Sai Dhanush Clinic in Thukkuguda, where Vijay Kumar was apprehended while conducting the illegal procedure. All three accused, K Raju, Lokesh and Vijay Kumar were booked under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act on Friday. The trio were issued notices to appear for questioning before the investigating officer.