Continuing investigations into the sex determination racket busted by the Baiyappanahalli police in October last year, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials who took over the investigations arrested another person, identified as Siddhesh, on Thursday and seized a third scanning machine from him.
Earlier this month, the CID officials arrested Lakshman Gowda M., owner of Avishkar Brothers Biomedical Private Limited in Mangaluru, for allegedly supplying three scanning machines to the accused who were part of the racket. The accused were licensed holders for procurement, repair, and sale of scanning machines who sold them to Dr. Mallikarjuna, who in turn passed it on to the accused illegally without valid authorization.
While the officials had recovered two machines earlier during the investigations, Siddhesh was absconding along with the third machine.
