Hyderabad: Nalgonda police arrested two persons from Hyderabad in connection with the kidney racket case.
Md. Waseemuddin, 31, a driver from Chandrayangutta, and N. Shivaraj Goud, 30 from SR Nagar, had allegedly travelled to Sri Lanka to sell their kidneys for '5 lakh. However, cops could not trace the Indian doctor, who are in touch with the Sri Lankan kingpins.
Police have booked a case under section IPC for conspiracy and section 18 and 19 of AP Transplantation of Human Organs Act against the Hyderabad duo.
Police officials said that the main accused in the case K. Suresh, a Nalgonda native and local agent of the kidney racket, had contacted the duo in early 2015, and helped them to go to Sri Lanka for transplant surgery.
Nalgonda police officials said that there is a provision to book a case against the donor because they deliberately traded in their organ knowing it was an illegal act.
“The charges against the donors are valid since they conspired to trade their organs thereby violating the Transplantation of Human Organs Act,” said Vikram Jeet Duggal, Nalgonda SP.
However, police still do not have much clue about the kingpins of the racket, who are located in other parts of the country. “Based on a few clues we collected from the arrested people, we are trying to trace the main members of the racket.
The medical practitioners from northern India are the leaders of this racket,” said a senior police official. Cops refused to reveal the names of doctors stating the reason that it might harm the investigation process.
Earlier police had arrested K. Suresh, the local agent, who sent at least 15 donors from South Indian states to Sri Lanka for kidney transplant surgery.
