Egg donation racket: Five more cases against Sadguru Healthcare, Oasis Fertility | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: As part of the investigation into the oocyte donation racket being probed by Malkajgiri police, five new FIRs were registered on Thursday against operators of city-based Sadguru Healthcare Services Pvt Ltd and its Oasis Fertility Clinics for allegedly trafficking women for oocyte (egg) donation.On separate complaints by Hyderabad DM&HO Putla Srinivas and Ranga Reddy DM&HO Kalyan Chakravarthy, the Jubilee Hills, Film Nagar, Miyapur, Mahankali and Malakpet police booked Sadguru Healthcare Services Pvt Ltd, which has its main office at Madinaguda under Miyapur police station limits. They also booked Gedela Durga Rao, director of the company and MD of Oasis ART bank and clinics, and donor facilitators Amit Sharma, Nikhat Parveen, Deepika and others. According to police, Sadguru Healthcare Services Pvt Ltd operates 46 fertility clinics across 10 states in India under the brand name Oasis Fertility.The complainants alleged that since Jan, the the company’s assisted reproductive technology (ART) bank had procured oocytes from 66 donors brought in by facilitators from across the country, in violation of statutory provisions.The five new FIRs were registered under Sections 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 143(2) (trafficking of person), 143(3) (punishment for human trafficking), 271 (negligent act likely to spread infection), 318(4) (cheating), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy), 111 (organised crime) of the BNS, 33(2), 34 of ART Act.Jubilee Hills and Miyapur police said that among the accused, Amit Sharma and Nikhat Parveen were already arrested by Malkajgiri police. “Our teams are searching for, Dr Gedela Durga Rao and Deepika. Both are currently absconding,” said a Jubilee Hills police official.On Oct 30, a joint inspection by Malkajgiri police and health officials at a women’s hostel in Begumpet found 12 women from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh who had been lured with offers of about Rs 50,000 per donation cycle. “The women were given hormonal injections without medical supervision. Used vials had been discarded without biomedical waste procedures,” the complainants alleged.According to the DM&HOs, further investigation revealed that some of the women were in the city as donors for the accused company. The inspection at Sadguru’s Madinaguda ART bank had revealed that it has agreements with nine facilitators from Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal to provide oocyte donors. “Under one agreement, a facilitator could be paid up to Rs 65,000 per donor, but the amount could be halved if fewer than seven oocytes were retrieved or if the oocytes were of poor quality. So, payment was linked to the quality and number of oocytes obtained from each woman and not to any expense actually incurred. Nothing was payable if stimulation was cancelled before the sixth day,” they alleged.The ART bank also assigned donors to clinics at Gachibowli and Uppal, whose registration records are yet to be verified. “The ART bank’s own records show that 66 donors underwent procedures between Jan and Oct 2026, but the records of only 47 were furnished to the inspecting officers. The records of 19 donors have not been produced. The bank also failed to furnish correct reports relating to donor oocytes,” the complainants alleged.The DM&HOs said the investigation had disclosed offences of organised crime, trafficking of women, criminal conspiracy, endangering life and omission to produce documents. “Women in financial difficulty were recruited in other states through a paid network of facilitators and transported to Hyderabad. They were kept in a hostel and received at the ART bank and clinics so that oocytes could be obtained through hormonal stimulation, which is physical exploitation,” they alleged.Malkajgiri police have already arrested eight accused in three cases related to the oocyte donation racket and identified 31 donors.