Hyderabad, June 13 -- The Vanasthalipuram Police have busted a foetal sex determination racket by conducting a decoy operation at a hospital and a scanning centre.

Police received credible information that sex determination scans were being done at Hayagreeva Multispeciality Hospital in Vanasthalipuram.

A female officer impersonating a pregnant woman was sent to the hospital to catch the culprits red-handed. There she met the hospital's director, Korra Raju and receptionist Ashok to discuss how she could get a TIFFA (Targeted Imaging for Foetal Anomalies) scan done, to determine the gender of her baby.

They informed her that it could be done, but at a private scanning centre in Tukkuguda and referred her to Vijay Kumar, a lab technicia...