Two of them were nabbed from Kanpur, whereas, the C Rama Rao, a close aide of T Rajkumar Rao was arrested from West Bengal’s Siliguri.
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Police on Thursday busted an illegal organ harvesting racket operating out of the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, one of city’s top private hospitals.
Three days after the Delhi Police busted a kidney racket at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital and arrested five people, the Delhi Government on Monday constituted a five-member probe panel and asked it to submit its report within 15 days.
The racket used to lure poor people across several states to sell their kidney off and also hound for people desperately looking out for kidney for transplant.
During investigation, it has also emerged that some of the recipients who procured kidney from the racket had used forged documents to hide their addresses.
All the necessary documents were made fraudulently by affixing donor’s photo showing the person as recipient’s relative using documents of a genuine relative, he added. “We urge the police to take the strictest of action against all those involved”. The gang included two women and two clerical staff from the hospital.
The commercial trade of organs is illegal in India and transplant donations to non-relatives must be approved by a special committee.
But a chronic shortage of organs available for transplant has fuelled a black market.
During investigation, it came to light that Devashish had offered his own kidney first but on being declared unfit he convinced his wife to do so, the official said.
With this, the total numbers of arrests in the case has gone up to eight.
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Suspecting the involvement of some senior staffers and even doctors in the racket, Delhi Police has served notices under CrPC sections 90 and 160 to the higher authorities of Apollo Hospital asking them to join probe and provide documents pertaining to kidney transplants carried out in the hospital in the past few months. “Further, the hospital has ensured that all due process as per the law has been followed”.
