BANGALORE: Chandrashekhar hit the headlines last month when police rescued the 16-year-old boy on whom a sex change operation had been forced. A group of trangenders had abducted him, renamed him Shilpa and pushed him into prostitution.
Today, the boy is in the news again as he has regained his sexual identity, thanks to modern science and a team of gifted doctors.
Thanks to the initiative taken by the city police, a group of surgeons at the Apollo Hospital — led by Dr Naveen Rao — carried out a major surgery and operated upon Chandrashekhar with successful sex reassignment. This is said to be the first such procedure in India‘s medical history, police claimed.
Chandrashekar was kept under observation from December 6 and was operated upon on December 19.
The surgeons extracted sections of nerves from Chandrashekhar’s arms and transplanted them to rebuild his genitals.
The boy, a resident of T Dasarahalli in Peenya, was coerced into prostitution by eunuchs. He was taken to Kadapa on March 23 and a sex change operation was forced on him. He was brought back to Bangalore after the operation and confined to a house in T Dasarahalli.
Chandrashekhar was forced to act like a girl and join the trangenders.
He was warned that if the spoke out against them, he would be branded with a hot coin on his forehead and barred from joining the community.
The boy‘s father Venkatappa, a labourer, had filed a missing complaint.
He saw a transgender resembling his son soliciting at Hebbal. He tipped off the Sampigehalli police who took Shilpa, and two others — Mangala and Madhu — into custody on November 8.
Police claimed to have busted a major racket in the city after the arrest of Basavaraj alias Mangala (26) of Vajarahalli in Nelamangala and Madhu alias Baby (20). Both Mangala and Madhu are said to have undergone sex change.
However, Dr Naganna, who operated upon Chandrashekhar and Rajanna, the main financier of the racket, are still absconding.