Delhi Police busts International organ transplant racket, 7 arrested

Delhi police has arrested seven people, including a doctor, in connection with an international organ transplant racket. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Amit Goel, said that the mastermind of this racket was a Bangladeshi.He said, Crime Branch has also arrested a person, who used to arrange patients and donors, and a female doctor involved in the transplant.Goel said, the accused have been running the organ racket since 2019.
"Both the donor and receiver were from Bangladesh. We have arrested a person named Russell, who used to arrange patients and donors, and a female doctor involved in the transplant has also been arrested," said the official. Police said that the people involved in this racket had links in Bangladesh."They used to charge Rs 25-30 lakhs for each transplant. They have been running the organ racket since 2019," added the police. An investigation into the matter is underway.
According to information, those arrested also include a 50-year-old woman doctor, who has so far operated on nearly 16 patients at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Noida.The racket was being run from Bangladesh to Rajasthan.Goel, said the arrested doctor, identified as Vijaya Kumari, was employed at a hospital in Delhi's Sarita Vihar. However, she facilitated nearly 16 transplants at a hospital in Noida. Investigations had earlier suggested the doctor was on payroll at Delhi's Apollo Hospitals. However, later, in a press statement, the hospital clarified Dr Kumari was not associated with them."The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch department had taken custody of a doctor who had been engaged on a fee-for-service basis and not on the hospital’s payroll. This action is subsequent to an investigation pertaining to procedures carried out at another hospital and prima-facie not related to any action or acts at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals (IAH). Given this action by the police, IAH had placed the doctor under suspension," the hospital statement read.