K'taka foeticide scam: Foetuses thrown in dustbin, left to decompose with medical waste, says accused nurse

Police said that the accused was carrying out abortions for six months. She had maintained that since they didn’t have advanced scanning machines, they were sometimes able to determine the gender of the foetus when it was six-month-old.

Police said that the whenever there was delay in identifying the gender, caesarean was conducted to take out the female foetus.

Karnataka government had handed over the investigation of the female foeticide scam to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The investigation into the foeticide scam that recently came to light in Bengaluru has led to shocking revelations that the accused had aborted 3,000 female foetuses so far.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayanand had said that the investigations have shown that the accused had carried out 3,000 abortions so far and in the last three months, 242 female foetuses were killed.

The accused had set a target of 1,000 abortions per year to make money as they charged anywhere between Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 per termination of pregnancy.

The scam came to light when

During interrogation, the accused spilled the beans about the abortion racket. The police have arrested nine people till now, including two doctors and three lab technicians for their involvement in the nefarious activity.

The probe also revealed that sex determination tests were done at a jaggery production unit in Mandya district where the accused had set up a lab and related facilities and abortions were conducted in Matha hospital of Mysuru.