3 more arrested as racket assumes a pan-India dimension
New Delhi : Ten doctors are likely to be questioned by the police in connection with the kidney racket busted in Apollo Hospital here last week, even as three more persons, including two women, were on Tuesday nabbed while the kingpin remains at large. With this, the total numbers of arrests in the case has gone up to eight.
All ten doctors in Apollo Hospital’s internal assessment committee for transplant surgeries will be quizzed, a senior police official said.
The committee comprises senior doctors working at the hospital, independent doctors and a government doctor. The three arrested have been identified as Umesh and Nilu, who are husband and wife residing in Kanpur, and Mamta alias Maumita, wife of one of the five accused arrested last week.
However, efforts to track down the kingpin, Rajukumar Rao, who is suspected to have links with similar rackets in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, have not yet yielded any results.
During interrogation, Umesh and Nilu told police that they had sold their kidneys for Rs 4 lakh and Rs 3 lakh respectively as they were in urgent need of money for their minor son’s leg surgery.
