The city police will despatch a team to Chennai in connection with a two-year-old sex change surgery conducted on a minor, who was kidnapped from Dasarahalli. This follows the arrest of S Naganna, a 75-year-old doctor who had allegedly castrated a boy at Kadappa in Andhra Pradesh last year, on Friday. The boy was kidnapped from Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu in July 2006.
Police sources here said the doctor had conducted a similar surgery on a 16-year-old Bangalore boy two years ago. Revealing that a team of city police will be despatched to Chennai to coordinate with their counterparts there, joint commissioner of police Alok Kumar said that the team is likely to take a body warrant with them to bring Naganna to the city.
Sampigehalli police inspector Ratnakar Shetty said that the doctor had filed a case against the police in Karnataka High Court.
“Naganna argued that the victim of sex change was not a minor. He stated that he had conducted the sex change surgery only after the boy turned major. We are examining the case he had filed in the High Court to take necessary action against him,” Shetty said.
The Bangalore boy, police said, was kidnapped by Naganna’s gang from Dasarahalli. The police caught three of his kidnappers, who later revealed that the doctor had performed the surgery on the boy.
According to the Chennai police, the doctor had confessed to conducting many sex change operations in recent years. “Dr Naganna used to perform at least two such surgeries every year and charge about Rs5,000 as fee for each operation. He is a gold medallist from the Kurnool Medical College and Hospital,” Chennai police said.
Chennai crime branch - CID additional DGP, Archana Ramasubramanian said that the doctor had admitted to conducting the surgery on the Kancheepuram boy.
“He has been remanded to judicial custody. We are planning to take him into police custody to question him to find out whether he was involved in other cases in Tamil Nadu or not. We have already informed the Karnataka police about his arrest,” she said, adding that the police suspect he had conducted more than 1,000 sex change surgeries.
Dr Naganna had been working as a surgical specialist at the government-run Kurnool General Hospital. A special team of the Chennai police arrested him on Friday.
