Following allegations of harassment by the Bengaluru Rural District Family Welfare Officer against the jurisdictional District Health Officer (DHO) concerning the investigation into the female foeticide case in two hospitals, the State Health Department has ordered a probe into the issue.
Bengaluru Rural District Family Welfare Officer S.R. Manjunath has alleged that the DHO, Sunil Kumar, has been harassing him for continuing investigation and registering cases against two private hospitals in Hoskote and Nelamangala taluks that have been accused of running a sex determination racket.
In December last, the Bengaluru police unearthed a prenatal sex determination racket across Bengaluru, Mandya, and Mysuru districts. They arrested a doctor and his lab technician, who allegedly performed around 900 illegal abortions in the last three years. The State government had, in the first week of January, constituted a task force for the PCPNDT Act implementation under the chairmanship of the Health Commissioner
