Bengaluru doc on the run after 700 sex change surgeries

Police are on the lookout for a doctor who they suspect conducted sex reassignment surgeries on 700 people. The police, who intensified their investigation into a gender change case of a boy from KR Pet, have identified a Bengaluru-based doctor.

The boy’s parents had lodged a complaint with the KR Pet police in October against a group of transgenders for allegedly transforming their son through a sex change. Police had arrested five transgenders in this connection, who disclosed the surgery on the boy was performed at a hospital in Nagarabhavi. The doctor of the same hospital is said to have conducted 700 such surgeries in the past five years. The doctor is now absconding.

Police suspect a huge network behind this racket.

The KR Pet boy was working as a daily wager at an eatery in Bengaluru. He is said to have befriended some transgenders on a train at Pandavapura when he was on his way to KR Pet.

He went missing from February 4. When he was traced in KR Pet in October, he had turned into a transgender. His parents then lodged a complaint with the KR Pet police, demanding action.

The police, who began the probe, found that there was a huge network behind the sex change incident.