Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
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random vehicle check conducted by Byappanahalli police led alert police to crack down on a sex determination racket operated in the city.
The police have arrested four people who are part of the racket and efforts are on to arrest a city based doctor who is part of the ring.
It was around 12 mid night when Manjunath PSI and his team conducting random vehicle check on Old Madras Road when they noticed a SUV Zoom past the check point without slowing down.
Suspecting something fishy,Manjunath along with his team gave a hot chase on bikes and intercepted the vehicle near NGF signal.
A detailed questioning led the police to detain Shivalinge gowda and Nayan Kumar who are ferrying a pregnant woman.
The police questioned the women to realize that they were returning from a lab after sex determination scan.
A detailed questioning led the police to arrest two more associates identified as Naveen Kumar and Veeresh.
Investigations revealed that the accused were running the racket for several years on behest of Veeresh uncle who is a Doctor in the city and operating a clinic on Old Madras Road.
The accused were working as agents to ferry the pregnant women to a scanning centre in Mandya to get the test done and bring them back with the result.
Based on their consent the doctor would also help to terminate the pregnancies if it was a female babies,a senior officer, said .
The police said that the racket is also extended to Mysuru and Mandya and charging lakhs of rupees for the sex determination and termination procedures.
The accused have been booked under Pre-conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, and also under section 511 (Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) and section 312 ( Causing miscarriage) of IPC.
