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Are Punjab, Gurgaon rackets linked?

While the court proceedings in the infamous kidney transplant racket unearthed in Amritsar in 2003 have made little headway, the case has taken a new twist.

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Amritsar doctor carried out illegal kidney transplants conducting tests in Delhi

CHANDIGARH: While the court proceedings in the infamous kidney transplant racket unearthed in Amritsar in 2003 have made little headway, the case has taken a new twist with the filing of a complaint by Ludhiana-based lecturer Kiran Kapoor. The complaint said the main accused in the racket, Dr PK Sareen, had taken Rs2.5 lakh as advance from her for conducting a kidney transplant operation at a cost of Rs6 lakh.

She told the Amritsar police that Sareen had taken the amount in 2006 to conduct the operation in Ranchi after getting her medical tests done in Delhi and Amritsar. In the end, the complainant said, Sareen neither returned the money nor conducted the kidney transplant operation on her.

Amritsar  SSP Vijay Pratap Singh, who had investigated the case in 2003 as an SP (city), said on Tuesday that Kiran Kapoor’s complaint had given a new lead about the active role that Sareen might still be playing in carrying out kidney transplant operations in other parts of the country. He said the police would also ascertain if he had links with the Gurgaon-based ‘Dr’ Amit Kumar who has come under the police scanner for illegal transplants.

Sareen has since been missing from his Amritsar residence. Meanwhile, the police case registered against Sareen and more than a dozen other doctors. The police investigations had found that Sareen had conducted more than 480 illegal kidney transplants with the connivance of  other doctors in Amritsar. 

More than 175  witnesses are to be questioned in courts, many of whom are on bail. Those arrested included the then principal of the Government Medical College and head of the forensic department in the college. The accused  were mostly mediators and donors who came from poor families. The FIR says the donors, coming from Bihar and UP, were lured into selling their kidneys at a small cost while the recipients were made to pay hefty sums.

“Some witness had gone hostile. But that is not going to affect the case, which is set to reach the logical conclusion. The process of recording the statements of a large number of witnesses is on,” said a senior legal official.
 
The SSP said that even as some of the witness had gone missing, the court never sought help of the police for tracing them. The case had led to widespread controversy as names of senior police officials and politicians as beneficiaries had also started surfacing.

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