Karnataka decoy op, authorities assessing the evidences recovered from the farmhouse
She was last arrested in 2024 following the death of a pregnant Kolhapur woman during an illegal abortion, and was released on bail in June. It was new place, we had no security and the backup team was 10 km away. “I got a call at 3 am on Tuesday requesting to reach Umadi police station.
Therefore, we informed Maharashtra police only after it was over.
We had to wade through jungle to reach the farmhouse, we weren’t sure whether it was Maharashtra or Karnataka and everything was happening in dark,” Kulkarni said. The Karnataka officials told me that the prime accused didn’t turn up. We have seized the portable sonography machine, the MTP tablets and injections,” Talekar said. Sangli civil surgeon Vikramsinha Kadam said the district collector and superintendent of police had been informed. Authorities were aware of cross-border sex-determination rackets and regularly inspected registered sonography facilities in villages along the border, he said. This is something that makes civil society bow its head in shame,” he said.
The trail began in Mahalingpur in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district. The operation itself was fraught with risk. “We wanted secrecy to be maintained about this operation. The cross-border operation triggered action in Sangli. There, I was informed about the decoy operation. “This incident has deeply disturbed me. Even in this modern era, despite so much advancement in science and technology, a girl’s life is being terminated in the womb with family members themselves cooperating in this crime.
The video showed men carrying equipment near the residence of a woman who had earlier been arrested in cases linked to illegal abortions. Namrata Talekar, medical officer at Umadi primary health centre in Jat taluka, was called to Umadi police station around 3am on Tuesday.