The Hyderabad police on Friday took Dr Athaluri Namratha (65), the proprietor of Common Srushti Fertility Centre at Secunderabad, and the prime accused within the faux surrogacy racket into five-day custody for additional questioning, officers aware of the event stated.
Namratha, who was arrested together with seven others, by Gopalapuram police on July 27, had been remanded to judicial custody by a Nampally prison courtroom on the identical day. On Thursday, the courtroom granted custody of the accused to the police for questioning for 5 days, beginning Friday.
After conducting the necessary medical examination at Gandhi Hospital, the police shifted Namratha to the workplace of the deputy commissioner of police (north zone) within the afternoon.
“I didn’t commit any crime. It was a fabricated case primarily based on false allegations made by a military man. I shall disclose all the main points shortly,” Namratha informed reporters at Gandhi Hospital.
Nevertheless, investigations by the police revealed that this was not the primary time that Namratha indulged within the enterprise of unlawful youngster trafficking and pretend surrogacy. “She is a recurring offender with a number of circumstances pending towards her in several police stations throughout Telangana and Andhra Pradesh,” stated the remand report submitted by the Hyderabad police earlier than the courtroom. HT has seen the report.
Namratha was booked for dishonest the sufferers with faux IVF process circumstances in 2010 and 2013 in Visakhapatnam and Guntur respectively. Between 2020 and 2023, she was booked in 9 different circumstances, together with 5 in Gopalapuram police station in Secunderabad and 4 in Visakhapatnam.
“She was charged with kidnapping (IPC Part 363), trafficking of individuals (Part 370), forgery for the aim of dishonest (Part 468) and pretending faux paperwork to be real (Part 471). In two circumstances registered within the Maharanipeta police station in Visakhapatnam, she was additionally charged beneath Part 81 and 87 of Juvenile Justice Act, which offers with the sale and buy of youngsters,” the report stated.
The remand report defined intimately the modus operandi adopted by Namratha within the newest occasion of shopping for a brand new born male youngster from an Assam couple and promoting them to a Rajasthani couple, claiming that he was born by means of surrogacy at Visakhapatnam.
The couple, who’ve been in Hyderabad since 2024, had approached Namratha at her Common Srushti Fertility Centre, searching for the delivery of a child by means of IVF technique. After conducting assessments on the mom, Namratha informed her that the IVF technique wouldn’t work out for her and she or he may receive a baby by means of surrogacy.
The couple had been informed that the docs will use their sperm and eggs for surrogacy. The child could be handed over after DNA affirmation by arranging a girl from the clinic and charged over ₹30 lakh from their service.
Nevertheless, the physician used totally different sperm and eggs for surrogacy. After a girl conceived, she was shifted to Visakhapatnam the place the girl delivered a child boy in June this 12 months. Later, the infant was handed over to the couple who left for Rajasthan.
When the couple requested the physician to conduct the DNA assessments for the kid, Namratha resisted first and later took the samples from husband for a DNA take a look at. When there was no response from the fertility centre for a number of days, the couple received the assessments performed at a DNA forensic lab in Vasant Kunj in Delhi, whose experiences indicated that the infant was not biologically linked to the daddy.
When the couple tried to contact Namratha with the real DNA experiences, she blocked their cellular numbers and began avoiding them over the cellphone. On June 23, 2025, the couple visited the clinic at Secunderabad and met Namratha
“Namratha admitted her mistake in handing over the unsuitable surrogacy youngster to the mother and father on pretext of fabricated IVF and surrogacy course of. She intentionally cheated the couple by gathering large quantities from the couple,” the remand report stated.
The report additionally identified that an anaesthetist from Gandhi Hospital was discovered to be hand in glove with Namratha in conducting the fertility assessments at her centre. “The anaesthetist Nargula Sadanandam, who was conscious of the unlawful operations at Common Srushti Fertility Centre and was knowingly administering anaesthesia to sufferers who had been present process assessments. He was additionally among the many arrested,” the report stated.
Namratha additionally engaged brokers in Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Vijayawada, who would lure financially susceptible ladies to behave as surrogate donors, providing them cash and introducing them to her. One of many brokers Dhanasri Santoshi, a housewife, was additionally arrested together with Namratha.
The police stated Mohammed Ali Adik and Nasreen Begum, the kid’s organic mother and father are at the moment imprisoned in Chanchalguda jail. Their organic youngster, who was supplied to the Rajasthani couple, was shifted to Sisu Vihar, belonging to the Telangana state ladies and youngster welfare division.
A case has been registered towards Namratha, the organic mother and father and others beneath sections 61 (prison conspiracy), 316 (prison breach of belief), 335 (making a false doc), 336 (forgery), and 340 (solid doc or digital file and utilizing it as real) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and sections 38, 39 and 40 of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021.
