BHOPAL/MORENA: Four-hundred metres off the Agra-Mumbai national highway (NH3), and 800 metres away from the Banmore police station, is an unpaved road leading to a threeroom house that has a large desert cooler jutting out from one of its windows. The locality in Jaitpur Road in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district is nondescript single-floor houses located on sparse plots, with cows ambling on dusty streets. Right in the middle is the home with the cooler, owned by 35-year-old taxi driver Lakhan Singh Gurjar. In one corner is a 10x10 square foot room. Its rickety wooden beds have no mattress. There are two entrances, the first through a worn-out wooden door, the other covered only by a curtain.
There is little reason for the rent for this house to be ₹15,000-10 times the market rate. Except that a joint investigation by Haryana and Madhya Pradesh in which a pregnant woman acted as a police molerevealed that this location was the venue of a clandestine sex determination camp where agents brought women secretively from multiple states.
On March 3, the Madhya Pradesh police arrested two agents, 32-year-old Narendra Singh and 24-year-old Sachin Kumar, while two others are on the run. "Four people have been booked in the case. The two arrested men worked as agents and drivers. The kingpin is 32-year-old Dheeraj Shriwas, who was found involved in a sex determination case in 2020, and has been absconding since then. We have invoked the stringent National Security Act against him. The other man on the run is Lakhan Gurjar, who owned the house," said Morena's superintendent of police Ashutosh Bagri.
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