The Byappanahalli police arrested a head nurse of a private hospital owned by the prime accused of the sex determination racket, who allegedly confessed to have aborted hundreds of babies.
The accused Manjula, who escaped soon after the racket was busted, joined another hospital in Mysuru from where she was arrested on Friday, December 1. She is among the ten people arrested so far.
Revealing the horrific details of the racket, Manjula confessed that she was working in the hospital as head nurse for the last one year with the main job of aborting babies. She told the officials that pregnant women who were admitted to the hospital were given tablets which made them bleed to remove the foetus.