Bengaluru: In a first for the Karnataka health department, a team of officials conducted an interstate decoy operation with the help of their Andhra Pradesh counterparts and unearthed a racket involved in prenatal sex determination.

After learning that a pregnant woman and her husband from Mandya had visited Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh, to know the sex of the foetus, officials in the health department launched the decoy operation using the same couple.

A team led by Dr Vivek Dorai, state nodal officer, Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT), conducted the operation in the neighbouring state.

The existence of the racket came to light when Asha workers, who were on a routine check of pregnant women in Malavalli, observed that one of the pregnant women was growing weak. W

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