Kidney racket: Police to send teams to Jaipur, Jammu, Nagpur

Apart from hunting the four recipients, who are on the run, the Delhi Police are trying to trace the whereabouts of the other five recipients, whose cases of illegal kidney transplant came to their knowledge after the arrest of the main kingpin – T Rajkumar Rao from Kolkata. Another FIR has already been registered in the case.

The Nagpur-based recipient is a businessman and is believed to be in a severe financial crunch, after paying for three (including his own) kidney transplants in his family. The recipients based in Jammu and Jaipur are small-time entrepreneurs, said an official privy to the investigation.

While a 22-year-old Ghaziabad-based man, identified as Ashutosh, who is the son of a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) junior engineer, was arrested on Thursday; another recipient, who had produced forged documents, showing his address as Ghaziabad before the transplant, has been traced in Delhi, the official said.

According to the police, all four are on the run. While one team is looking out for the recipient traced in Delhi, teams will soon be sent to Nagpur, Jammu and Jaipur to arrest the other recipients, the senior official added.

“Recipients in the first five cases have been identified. In other five, we have got some leads, but their identities are yet to be established. Efforts are on to arrest them at the earliest,” said MS Randhawa, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-east).

So far, 13 persons, including several middlemen, personal assistants of senior doctors, donors, a recipient and the racket’s kingpin Rajkumar Rao, have been arrested so far.

Investigators have come across 10 transplant cases facilitated by the gang in the Apollo Hospitals and registered two cases, but no senior doctor has been questioned so far, despite three of them being under police scanner.