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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted hunt operations astatine 9 locations successful Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam connected Thursday successful transportation with the Srushti Fertility Centre scam linked to Pachipalli Namratha alias Athluri Namratha.
The searches led to the seizure of incriminating documents, including details of her properties, according to ED media release.
The probe stems from aggregate FIRs filed by Gopalapuram constabulary successful Hyderabad, accusing Dr Namratha of fraud, cheating, conspiracy, kid trafficking and moving an unauthorised surrogacy operation.
Officials said she lured childless couples into surrogacy, alternatively of IVF, promising them a kid calved utilizing their ain embryos implanted successful surrogate mothers. Couples were charged astir ₹30 lakh, of which ₹15 lakh was paid by cheque and ₹15 lakh was to beryllium paid successful currency to purported surrogates. However, successful respective cases, DNA tests aboriginal confirmed that the children handed implicit were not biologically related to the couples.
The ED probe revealed that mediocre and susceptible women were recruited by agents, offered money, and persuaded to springiness up their new-borns. While surrogates and agents received tiny sums, the bulk of the proceeds was allegedly retained by Dr. Namratha, who utilized the wealth to get properties and money her idiosyncratic expenses.
Documents seized during the raids indicated that she had been moving the cognition for implicit a decade, utilizing fabricated surrogacy agreements to legitimise the transactions.
The racket extended beyond Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to different cities, including Nellore and Kolkata.
In 1 case, overseas parents reportedly discovered the deception erstwhile a DNA trial revealed that the kid provided to them was not their biologic offspring, resulting successful the denial of a passport.
Further probe is nether way.
