The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the Nepal Police has started an investigation against five people, including three doctors of Hope Fertility and Diagnostic Pvt Ltd, located in Babarmahal, Kathmandu, on the charge of selling the eggs of teenage girls.
Based on a complaint that this organization, which helps childless couples to have children with the help of various technologies including IVF, was dealing in the eggs of girls under the age of 18, the CIB arrested them.
According to CIB spokesperson SP Yuvraj Khadka, a complaint has also been registered against them for crimes against children. CIB for research Dr. Fossil Officer, Dr. Swasti Sharma, Dr. Malina Chaudhary along with Justina Pradhan and Alisa Wali were taken into custody. CIB is investigating after leaving them in attendance.
"We have started an investigation after finding that the bodies of teenage girls were made into a laboratory in the name of helping a childless couple to have a child," SP Khadka said, "The preliminary investigation is underway." An investigation has been conducted on the basis of the girl's family's complaint.'
According to a police officer, they used to give ordinary money to girls for egg extraction by showing various temptations. One of the girls was found to have been given 10,000 rupees and the other 15,000 rupees.
The case was reported to the Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau on June 26 after the girl who was lured told her parents about the incident. The CIB investigated the matter of taking out the ovum of a teenage girl and giving money and using the ovum after seeing that the bureau did not come within its jurisdiction . The girls also told the police that a middleman took the girls to Hope Fertility and Diagnostics Pvt Ltd for eggs.
