A foetal sex determination racket operating from a hut near a canal in Hadwasi village of Bagchini area (Morena) has been busted. Suspicion arose after frequent movement of women; a villager recorded a video and locked the hut from outside. However, the main accused and six women escaped in a Maruti van after removing the thatched roof. Villagers later caught the van driver and handed him over to the police. Police have registered a case against the main accused, the driver, and another person. A search is on to trace the absconding accused. Suspicion arose due to repeated movement of women in the van Vikas Sharma became suspicious when he noticed women repeatedly coming and going from a van near the canal in Hadwasi village. He started recording a video and approached the van, entering a hut. Inside, suspended peon Sanjay Pachauri was conducting foetal sex determination tests. 6 women were sitting inside. The youth latched the door from outside and went to the village for help. Meanwhile, with the driver’s help, the accused removed the grass from the hut and escaped. According to village youth Vikas Sharma, there were women inside, and a person was conducting foetal sex determination tests on a woman. Chhotu alias Vikram from the village, who was sitting in front, covered his face. Women dropped on highway, villagers caught the driver All the women and the main accused, Sanjay Pachauri, got down from the van near Mungawali village on National Highway 552 and fled from there by other means. Later, villagers chased the van and caught driver Rakesh Prajapati and handed him over to the Civil Line police. According to Bagchini police station in-charge Shashi Kumar, “In this case, a zero FIR has been registered at Civil Line police station, and the diary has been sent to Bagchini police station. Because the incident site falls under the Bagchini police station area. A case has been registered against three accused van driver Rakesh Prajapati, Sanjay Pachauri, and Vikram.” Accused has been to jail 3 times, had taken the van on rent for ₹800 per day The main accused conducting foetal sex determination, Sanjay Pachauri, was a peon at CM Rise School in Jaura, who was suspended in 2024. He has been arrested three times before in this racket. He had recently been released after serving 6 months in jail and got involved in the same work again. According to van driver Rakesh Prajapati, “Sanjay Pachauri had rented his vehicle for ₹800 per day. He used to pick up and drop women from designated locations. He dropped all the people at Mungawali intersection, then he didn’t know which vehicle they left in.” Earlier, baby girls were killed after birth, but now, after ultrasound examination, they are killed in the womb itself… Post navigation 9th grade student sets herself on fire troubled by harassment:Accused surrounds father; attacks him near home after FIR is filed Indore actress accuses liquor businessman of illegal land encroachment:Raymon says, ‘they demanded 6,000 sq ft land, we refused, yet pillars were erected’
