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In a large crackdown connected amerciable enactment determination and termination practices, officials of the State Appropriate Authority nether the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) conducted a palmy decoy cognition successful Hunuganahalli Hundi, Bannur taluk, Mysuru district. The cognition led to the unearthing of a clandestine setup allegedly progressive successful enactment determination and sex-selective abortion.
A associated squad from the State and District Appropriate Authorities (PCPNDT) and the State and District Inspection and Monitoring Committees (SIMC and DIMC) carried retired the cognition astir 3 p.m. connected October 22, pursuing credible accusation that amerciable enactment determination procedures were being conducted successful the area.
How it unfolded
Vivek Dorai, State PCPNDT Nodal Officer, who led the team, told The Hindu that the cognition began earlier successful the time astatine Mellahalli Circle, wherever 1 Puttasiddamma handed implicit ₹30,000 successful currency to a antheral identified arsenic Swamy. Shortly afterwards, a large pistillate was picked up by different individual, Govindaraju, successful a car. Two different large women — Roopa, 34, from K.R. Nagar, and Uma, 23, from Keragalli, Mysuru taluk — were subsequently picked up from antithetic locations by the aforesaid person.
All 3 women, including a decoy (pregnant) pistillate deployed by the authorities, were taken to a recently constructed location astatine Hunuganahalli. Acting swiftly, the officials’ squad reached the spot and entered the premises wrong 15 minutes, helium said.
Inside the house, the officials recovered the 3 large women successful a chamber connected the archetypal floor, reportedly waiting for a doc to get for enactment determination and imaginable termination of pregnancy. Several different women and children were besides contiguous successful the room.
Preliminary enquiry revealed that the women had been instructed by the agents to place themselves arsenic relatives of 1 Shyamali, if questioned. They were besides told to power disconnected their mobile phones and conceal them, Dr. Dorai said.
What was recovered
During the inspection, the squad recovered aesculapian instrumentality and materials utilized for pregnancy-related procedures. These included IV fluids, progesterone injections, syringes, diclofenac and enoxaparin sodium injections, gestation trial kits (both utilized and unused), aesculapian records, diaries, and infirmary receipts from a backstage facility. A machine strategy was besides seized. Documents recovered from the spot bore the names of aggregate large women, suggesting a wider network, Dr Dorai explained.
Pointing retired that the activities amounted to violations nether Section 3A of the PCPNDT Act, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, and the Biomedical Waste Management Act, the doc said: “The District Appropriate Authority, Mysuru, has filed a constabulary ailment and ineligible proceedings against each those progressive volition beryllium initiated. An FIR has been registered successful the jurisdictional constabulary station, and a elaborate compliance study volition beryllium submitted to the State authority.”
“The cognition has exposed a superior usurpation of the PCPNDT and MTP Acts. A thorough probe volition beryllium conducted, and due ineligible enactment volition follow,” helium added.
