Telangana police dig deeper into kidney racket case

The Telangana police, who busted an international kidney racket a couple of days ago, are now widening the scope of the investigation to find out the nexus between doctors and three of the racketeers who were arrested, including the kingpin Amrish Pratap of Bhopal.

Pratap, who was successful in performing 40 transplantations, used to spend most of the amount received through the kidney transplants for the costly treatment of his wife in Singapore. Along with Pratap, the police arrested his associates Rithika Singh alias Rinkee of Bindapur in New Dehli and Rohan Malik alias Sandeep Kumar of Noida.

 

“In our investigation being conducted scientifically, we have found the involvement of several people including doctors based in Delhi and Noida,” Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat said at a press conference here on Monday told that when a donor, Gampa Raju, approached the police and complained



that Pratap and his associates had cheated him.

The role of the doctors in conducting kidney cross-match tests at diagnostics centre in Noida was yet to be verified. Pratap involved many doctors, diagnostics centres, government officials and brokers in the racket. To identify donors, he engaged brokers and used social media to lure donors with huge money.

At the same time, he searched for rich patients who could spend Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 crore for kidney transplants. He used to send patients and donors to Western Hospital at Colombo in Sri Lanka, Al-Fahad hospital in Cairo of Egypt, and Kent Hospital at Izmir in Turkey. “We have to find out whether any patient died or faced any problem after the transplant. How the money was paid and in how many cases the three who have arrested were involved are also being investigated,” Bhagwat said.