If Dr ‘Kidney’ Amit Kumar’s racket was appaling, his modus operandi can put even a crime thriller to shame.
Imran Tai was told he was being operated upon for appendicitis
SURAT: If Dr ‘Kidney’ Amit Kumar’s racket was appaling, his modus operandi can put even a crime thriller to shame. His gang used not just money and blatant lies but also offered sex with foreign call girls to trap his victims. DNA investigations revealed that a 22-year-old Imran Tai from village Kathor near Surat was one of the victims of this racket whose kidney ‘stolen’ by the gang.And this could well be a tip of the iceberg as there are many more Gujaratis who were trapped in a similar fashion.
Imran who works as a casual labourer had fled to Mumbai when he was 19.
Since he was struggling to find work, out of sheer desperation he sat outside Haji Ali dargah in Mumbai, when an unknown person offered him food.
“The stranger took me to a restaurant and I developed a stomachache after consuming the food offered by him. He then took me away to a hospital,” Imran recollects the incident, however, he is unable to remember names of the places.
“The doctor told me I had appendicitis and I need to be operated upon. However, he told me that the operation would be performed in Delhi and not Mumbai. They provided me food and lodging, so I felt that they were genuine people and trusted them,” Imran says.
Imran was sent to Delhi in a flight and was also given cash of Rs5,000. He was received by two people and taken to an unknown clinic, which was three hours drive from the airport, where he was kept in a common room.
Interestingly, he was accompanied by a foreign woman and another guy. “The girl also lured me to have sex with her on the previous night of the surgery,” he says.
The victim says he was operated upon on the fifth day and remained unconscious for almost 36 hours. “When I regained consciousness, there was a police raid at the clinic and everyone had to run away. I was taken to a small hotel where I stayed for seven days, after which I was given Rs5,000 again and made to sit in a train for Surat,” he says.
When he returned to his village and started work, he realised that he could not do much work because of exhaustion. He learnt that one of his kidneys was missing only when his employer took him to a doctor and tests were performed on him.
Imran says he kept silent all these months but decided to tell his story after watching the news of the kidney racket on TV.
“The TV channels showed that poor victims were lured by the racketeers, who provided good treatment and money to them for a few days before removing their kidneys,” he says while affirming his willingness to a lunch a police complaint against the strangers.
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