The Mumbai crime branch has formed a special team to trace suspects in the multi-crore global kidney racket involving Dr P Ravichandran, a nephrologist, and four others from Chennai.
Special team to net more suspects in multi-crore kidney racket
The Mumbai crime branch has formed a special team to trace suspects in the multi-crore global kidney racket involving Dr P Ravichandran, a nephrologist, and four others from Chennai. The five were arrested for duping people and luring them into selling their kidneys for a huge sum of money.
Hectic activity has begun at the Unit 3 office of the crime branch, which is preparing the charge sheet for the case. The stipulated 60-day deadline of filing the charge sheet ends next week.
Incidentally, deputy chief minister RR Patil on Tuesday, at the ongoing winter session of the state assembly, said the government will ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the investigations in this case.
The decision was taken as the racket was spread across various states in the country as well as abroad, Patil added. A senior police officer from the crime branch, who is part of the investigations, said that given the spread of the crime, it wouldn’t have been possible for the crime branch to investigate the case thoroughly.
The government must have therefore decided to hand over the investigation to CBI, which has jurisdiction and authority to investigate such a case.
Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said, “Investigations are still on and we have made a special team of police officers who will trace the other suspects in the case.” The five accused were initially arrested under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code for cheating.
However, the court later granted police later got permission from the court to prosecute the suspects under the stringent Human Organ Transplant Act.
Police have questioned some doctors who were allegedly part of the racket, but no
further arrests have been made. Following the busting of the racket, the Chennai government has suspended the license of Bharati Raja hospital, which, according to police, was where the transplants were conducted.
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