Has the mastermind behind the latest kidney scam fled the country? The Haryana police would not be surprised if Dr Amit Kumar has used his foreign clients to escape.
MUMBAI/CHANDIGARH/HYDERABAD: Has the mastermind behind the latest kidney scam fled the country? The Haryana police would not be surprised if Dr Amit Kumar has used his foreign clients to escape.
“We are not ruling out the possibility that he may have escaped abroad by using his contacts,” says the Gurgaon police commissioner Mahinder Lal. “We are not going to let him have an easy run for long. A man accused of being involved in 500 illegal transplants will not be allowed to go scotfree and we will track him down soon,” he said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai police have rushed a team to Gurgaon and a team from Gurgaon has reached Hyderabad in an effort to crack one of the biggest kidney rackets in the country.
The Gurgaon police confirmed that Amit Kumar and Jeevan Kumar (both surgeons), Upendra Kumar (physician) and Saraj Kumar (anaesthetist) had been arrested thrice earlier on the charge of illegal human organ transplants in Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
The first case was registered against them in 2000, when the Delhi police arrested them from the Nizamuddin area. In 2001, they were held by the Andhra Pradesh police in Guntur district. A similar case was also registered against them in Mahim, Mumbai.
Amit Kumar alias Santosh Raut was wanted in illegal organ transplant cases at Guntur and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and in Jaipur.
Mumbai deputy commissioner of police Deven Bharti said “Our team will give them mutual help and would also get details about Raut. This would help us in our kidney racket investigations too.”
In Hyderbad, the Gurgaon police team was planning to collect information of recent cases filed in several police stations in connection with organ trade and kidney transplantation and donor’s lists from hosptials performing organ transplantation surgeries.
Five foreign tourists, who had allegedly come for kidney transplants were found in Amit Kumar’s “luxury guest house” at Gurgaon on Saturday. He owns two hospitals in Gurgaon under the banner of Liberty Health Care Pvt Ltd, located about five km apart, both of which were also raided on Saturday.
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