Gang exploited 10 young victims last year alone
Items seized from the card skimming gang
Hyderabad: The North Zone police busted an international kidney racket on Monday by arresting a senior doctor from Shi-rdi and three others. The gang had exploited at least 10 young victims in the last year. The doctor’s three aides from the city would track down needy donors and patients through Facebook and dialysis centres, offering lakhs of rupees.
They would transfer the donors to hospitals in Sri Lanka and Iran and conduct the surgeries there to avoid Indian enforcement agencies. The gang exploited at least 10 kidney donors in the last year in Hyderabad, Vizag, and Jammu and Kashmir. They would charge Rs 30 lakh for each kidney, but pay only Rs 3 lakh to the donor. The kingpin of the racket, Dr Hridesh Saxena, 60, had been practicing in a private hospital, Sai Hamara Shirdi, while actively hunting for donors, working with his counterparts in Iran and Sri Lanka.
His associate, K. Ragavender, 34, of Hayatnagar, pretended to be a doctor and attracted donors on Facebook and introduced them to Dr Saxena. Sources said that he himself had been a donor before he became a middle-man in the gang.
“The doctor had specific hospitals in Tehran and Colombo where the surgeries were done. He sent the donors on tourist visas and the payment would be made to the donor’s relative or friend in India on the day of the surgery,” said ACP Anjani Kumar.
Interrogation of the doctor revealed that his net had spread in Chennai, Kerala, Maharashtra, AP and Jammu and Kashmir. The third accused, A. Ashok, 22, is a student in a private college, and a resident of Yellareddyguda of Ameerpet. His job was to search for new donors and he got paid Rs 50,000 as commission for each donor. The fourth accused, Sanjay Kumar Jain, 32, is a passport broker who arranged the donors’ travel to Iran and Sri Lanka. Additional commissioner of police Anjani Kumar said that the doctor would operate with the help of another man named Ram Kumar from Chennai.
“The doctor had specific hospitals in Tehran and Colombo where the surgeries were done. He sent the donors on tourist visas and the payment would be made to the donor’s relative or friend in India on the day of the surgery,” he said.
“The racketeers would find needy patients through Facebook and dialysis centres. They too would be taken to the hospitals in Iran and Sri Lanka. However, the donors and receivers were never allowed to meet,” said the ACP.
Police has booked cases against the accused under the AP Transplantation of Human Organ Act, 1995, several sections of IPC, IT Act and the Passport Act. The police said that the donors would also be booked after an inquiry.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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