Doctor in trafficking net insisted couple opt for surrogacy despite being fit to conceive

Time of India

6 days ago

Hyderabad: Citing her 25 years of experience, Dr A Namratha of Srushti Test Tube Baby Centre — arrested by Hyderabad police along with seven others in the alleged baby-selling racket — insisted that the complainant couple opt for surrogacy.
This, despite the couple's medical tests confirming them fit to conceive. The tests were worth Rs 66,000.
These revelations have come to light in the remand report filed by Gopalapuram police recently. The report also stated that the doctor used to store all surrogacy-related documentation in a separate consultancy room to keep it out of the reach of the staff and ensure that none of the records were handed over to patients.
The remand report stated that the complainant couple was told by Dr Namratha in September last year that a healthy embryo was successfully implanted in the surrogate and confirmation of pregnancy was awaited. "Believing this the couple made further payments…...Dr Namratha later confirmed the pregnancy (to the complainants) over a phone call and periodically shared some medical reports, but withheld originals and did not allow complainant to retain even digital copies, often forcing them to leave their phones outside her office," the report added.
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Dr Namratha promised the complainants that a healthy child would be delivered to them after DNA confirmation and for that, their own sperm and eggs would be used to develop embryos. However, she handed them a two-day-old boy born to an Assamese couple, under the pretext that the child was biologically theirs.
According to the remand report, when the complainants confronted Dr Namratha about it, she "verbally accepted her mistake" and sought time to resolve it.
"But the couple could not reach her after that despite trying multiple times," the report added.
Cops have also found that another accused, Dr N Sadanandam of Gandhi Hospital, used to supply anaesthesia to Dr Namratha despite knowing that the centre was running without registration.
The Telangana Medical Council (TGMC) has served a show cause notice to both the jailed doctors. While eight accused have been arrested in the case, three others - Kalpana, Sanjay and Nandini - are absconding.
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