New Delhi, March 10 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached fifty immovable properties valued at Rs 29.76 crore during investigation in an illegal surrogacy racket being run by a Hyderabad-based doctor in the name of Universal Srusthi Fertility and Research Centre.

The attached properties are in the form of land parcels, flats, as well as a hospital in the name of the accused, Dr Pachipalli Namratha alias Athluri Namratha, and her sons and the present market value of these properties is estimated to be around Rs 50 crore. ED had arrested Namratha on February 12 this year under section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), and presently she is in judicial custody.

ED's Hyderabad zonal office attached her propertie...