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Nalgonda police bust global kidney sale racket
The Nalgonda police cracked the illegal international kidney transplantation racket and arrested four persons involved in it.
Nalgonda: The Nalgonda police cracked the illegal international kidney transplantation racket and arrested four persons involved in it.
Producing the arrested before the media on Tuesday night, Superintendent of Police Vikram Jeet Duggal said that Kasparaju Suresh (22), a resident of Krishnaveni Colony in Nalgonda was the local agent in the racket.
Suresh, who was pursuing hissecond year hotel management course at Hyderabad, wanted to lead a lavish life by selling his kidney. He put up his phone number on the website www.ineedkidney.com in November, 2014. Through this website, he travelled to Colombo with the help of an agent who also sent the patient to a hospital in Colombo during the month of December 2014. The kidney of Suresh was removed and transplanted to a patient in Mumbai. Suresh was paid Rs 5 lakhs in the deal.
The Superintendent of Police said that Suresh learnt the tricks of this evil trade and he used to forward the passports of those who wanted to sell their kidney to different agents who was getting the kidney selling donors medically tested in Gujarat and trafficking them to the Naw loak hospital in Colombo, Western hospital and Lankan hospital where the recipient-patients were going and getting their kidney transplanted.
He said that the sale of kidneys was going on clandestinely, through online and social networks such as whatsapp. The money was sent through online bank transfers by recruiting agents to the paid donors and the agents, who trafficked them to Colombo. On the sale of each kidney and its transplantation, a package deal was made with the hospital. For each surgery, the cost was Rs 13 lakh and for medical tests on the donor and recipients, the cost was Rs 1.5 lakh, for accommodation and travel, the cost was Rs 2 lakh and the kidney donors received Rs 5 lakh package and the trafficking agent, Rs 50,000.
Kasparaju Suresh apart fromhimself, trafficked 15 persons and he earned nearly Rs 10 lakh and was leading a lavish life purchasing a car, motor cycle. Among the paid donors, there are Abdul Hafeez alias Kazim, Palem Mahesh and Kothapally Naresh hailing from Nalgonda district. In the interrogation, the local agent confessed that four persons from Bangalore, two from Tamil Nadu and two each from Mumbai and New Delhi also sold their kidneys for money in the racket.
The Superintendant of Police said that he suspected that the main kingpins in the racket were residing in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. He informed that investigation was going on to identify the main persons linked with the kidney racket and nab them. The Police had also seized the passports of the arrested persons. The Nalgonda One Town Police registered cases against the accused under Section 18 and 19 of Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1995, IPC 420 R/W 120(B).
