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Delhi Police gets three-day transit remand of arrested kidney racket mastermind

| | Jun 09, 2016, at 05:35 pm
New Delhi/Kolkata, Jun 9 (IBNS): A Delhi police team brought T. Rajkumar Rao, the alleged kingpin of the kidney racket unearthed recently in the national capital, on Wednesday, on a three-day transit remand from Kolkata, where he was arrested on Monday.

According to media reports, the police also arrested one Bhanu Pratap, a donor from Kanpur, taking the total number of arrests to 10, media reported.

Reportedly, Rajkumar Rao owns two houses in Kolkata and has been living in the Rajarhat area in the eastern fringe of the city, for the past two years.

Rao has been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code dealing with cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy for trading in human kidneys, the media reported.

During interrogation, Rao revealed that he had been running the racket with Aseem Sikdar in Delhi, Kolkata, Coimbatore and Jalandhar since 2010. He shifted base to Kolkata after the racket in Coimbatore was busted in 2013, reported Hindustan Times.

On June 3, South Delhi's  multi-speciality Indraprastha Apollo Hospital said that it is co-operating with the police and providing them with all information required to hold an inquiry into the alleged kidney sale racket.

According to media reports, Delhi police claimed to have busted a kidney trade racket following the arrest of six persons late on June 2 after being tipped off about the presence of middlemen and potential donors.

Those arrested included the personal staff of doctors at the hospital.

According to the hospital release, the police in their investigation has identified secretarial staff of some doctors, who are not employees of the hospital, who have been alleged to be involved in the racket.

 

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