Cops Take Strict Action In The Alleged Kidney Racket Of Apollo, 3 More Arrested In The Case

Posted on 07 June 2016. Tags: action, Alleged, Apollo, Arrested, case, Cops, kidney, more, racket, strict, take

Three donors were arrested on 7th June including two women in connection with the kidney racket busted in Apollo Hospital. The two women were arrested from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh while the third person was arrested from West Bengal’s Siliguri.

 

The recent arrests have taken the total arrests in the high profile case to 8. The police have made these arrests via interrogation of the five people arrested earlier.

 

In the meanwhile, another police team has gone onwards to Kanpur so as to conduct raids and arrest some more suspects associated with the racket. The Kingpin of the racket is suspected to be a person named RajKumar Rao. There are allegations that he has good connections with similar rackets running in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

 

Sources indicate that investigators have doubts over a senior nephrologist as far as the racket is concerned. They also allege that some of the kidney transplants, in which the racketeers were involved, were performed by the same doctor in Apollo Hospital.

 

Although the doctor has still not been nabbed by the police due to lack of evidence against him, sources have pointed out that his personal secretaries’ roles are being probed by the police.

 

The police have even short listed the names of 3 senior doctors from the hospital’s in house assessment committee in order to verify documents associated with transplants. They will be questioned by the cops so as to get further leads in this case.

 

Delhi Police had blown the lid off an alleged kidney trade racket on 3rd June in the multi specialty Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. Further, two of its secretarial staff and three touts were also arrested in this connection.

 

The touts dealt with needy people and provided them money in exchange for their kidneys. The accused made Rs. 25-30 lakh from per kidney recipient whereas the donors were paid anything within the range of 3-5 lakh.

 

Sources had even then pointed out the involvement of hospital staff in the illegal trade. Further, the role of senior doctors had also come under scrutiny following this disclosure.

 

The case is being probed by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Delhi Police. The police have alleged that the touts would bring donors from places like West Bengal, Delhi, Kanpur and Chennai and put them in Delhi hotels. Donors were then tested to check whether they were suitable matches for the patients or not. Later on, documents were forged to show that the donor was the recipient’s relative.

 

As per the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, only a relative is permitted to donate a kidney. A non-relative can only be a donor if a proper match is not available within the family.

 

Fake voter ID cards, Aadhaar cards with photographs were found from some donors’ possession following a police raid. Further, original and electronic files, CDs and documents were also recovered from the hospital.

 

Delhi Police has undertaken strict action in this regard and has served notices under CrPC sections 90 and 160 to the authorities of Apollo Hospital and has asked them to join the probe and cooperate with the police.

 

Meanwhile, the police have also put two more reputed hospitals in Delhi under its scanner.

 

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