Orissa: Cops seize foetuses from Diagnostic centre

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Bhubaneswar, Aug 1: The City police today raided a Diagnostic Centre and detained two of its employees after some plastic jars, containing foetuses and uterus, were recovered behind the centre.

Police said a local youth club informed that some plastic jars were dumped behind the Diagnostic Centre close to the Capital Hospital near Forest Park.

Soon the police party arrived at the spot, cordoned off the area and recovered the containers from the site.

On verifications it was found that some of the jars contained foetuses while others had uterus and other body parts. The Police immediately sealed the Diagnostic Centre and took two of its employees for interrogation.

District Collector, Superintendent of Police, Chief District Medical Officers and other police officials rushed to the spot as tension prevailed in the area following the discovery of foetuses.

Some woman leaders staged a demonstration and locked the Diagnostic Centre demanding action against the culprits.

Police suspected that somebody, panicking over series of raids on the Clinic and Ultra sound diagnostic centre across the state in the wake of Crime Branch inquiry into the Nayagarh foeticide case, had dumped the jars fearing police action.

The police had already arrested three doctors and sealed ultra sound clinics and Nursing Homes in Nayagarh after hundreds of foetuses in polythene packets were recovered from an abandoned well on July 23 last.

The crime branch police probing into the incident, have meanwhile prepared a list of doctors from the Capital city and other places, who were visiting Nayagarh regularly to conduct the sex determination test illegally in the unlicensed clinics.

The Opposition political parties have demanded a CBI inquiry and the resignation of State Health Minister Duryadhan Majhi, holding the Health Department responsible for the female infanticide in the state.

UNI

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