Hyderabad, July 29 -- Within hours of the Hyderabad police busting the illegal baby selling and fake surrogacy racket in a Secunderabad-based fertility centre, the police and medical department officials of Andhra Pradesh raided its branch at Vijayawada on Monday only to find it closed and doctors absconding, officials said.

NTR district medical and health officer M Suhasini, along with a team of officials and doctors inspected the Universal Srushti Fertility and Research Centre, located near Benz Circle in Vijayawada.

This fertility centre is a branch of the main facility located Secunderabad headed by Dr Athaluri Namratha who has since been arrested. It is being managed by Dr V Karuna. "The Vijayawada centre was operating till Sunday,...