Additional Chief Medical Officer of Capital Hospital Sudhir Brahma surrendered before Crime Branch Inspector General Bijay Kumar Sharma amidst reports that some more doctors of the hospital were also involved in the Nayagarh case.

As many as seven persons had already been arrested in the case and more arrests were on the cards, Sharma told presspersons after Brahma's surrender.

A team of Crime Branch men took the accused doctor to Nayagarh to carry out further investigation in the case. He was likely to be formally arrested in the foeticide case.

Initial investigations by the Crime Branch had indicated that some doctors from Bhubaneswar were making frequent visit to Nayagarh for conducting sex determination tests as well as medical termination of pregnancy in clear violation of the rules.

The shocking case of female foeticide was unearthed on July 14 when a 12-year-old boy stumbled upon polythene bags containing seven female foetuses near Nayagarh.

A few days later, the Nayagarh police had also recovered thousands of pieces of infant skulls and bones from a well on the outskirts of the town. A private nursing home in the town was using that pit for dumping its waste.

A Crime Branch probe was ordered after various organisations demanded a thorough probe into the crime.