Hyderabad police have arrested 25 people, including doctors, lab technicians, supervisors, agents and birth parents, in connection with the illegal surrogacy and child trafficking racket operated under the guise of fertility treatment. The network, operating from the Universal Srushti Fertility Centre in Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam, is accused of defrauding desperate couples and trafficking babies through a web of medical deceit and forged documents.
The accused were identified as Athaluri Namratha alias Pachipala Namratha, doctor and owner of Universal Srushti Fertility Centre and her son Pachipala S.S. Jayanth Krishna, advocate; Chitikireddi Kalyani Atchayyamma, manager at the Visakhapatnam branch; Gollamandala Chenna Rao, lab technician and embryologist and his wife Gollamandala Surekha, nurse; Nargula Sadanandam, anaesthesiologist at Gandhi Hospital; Maranganti Pavan Mohan Krishna, supervisor and main accountant; Arimlli Vidyullatha, paediatrician; Pulumuru Usha Devi, gynaecologist; Vasupalli Ravi, anaesthesiologist at Vizag; and Bingi Ramya, junior embryologist at Vizag. The birth parents arrested include Mohammed Ali Adik and Nasreen Begum from Assam, and Kodamala Karuna Sree from Vijayawada.
