The court has granted three days’ police custody remand of the kingpin of the kidney racket, busted at a hospital in Doiwala, Dr Amit Kumar on Tuesday. Informing this, Dehradun senior superintendent of police Nivedita Kukreti said that they would interrogate him thoroughly to get further leads into the operation of the racket.
In-charge of the special investigation team (SIT), formed to crack the case, Sarita Dobhal who is also SP Rural said that police custody remand of Dr Amit Kumar has started from Tuesday evening. Police had earlier filed a petition, seeking police remand of the doctor from the court, on Monday.
Notably, several persons, including Jagdish Kumar, Anupama Choudhary, Abhishek Sharma, Rajiv Choudhary, Dr Jeevan, nurse Sarla, Arun kumar Pandey, Dr Ashok Tyagi, Sri Niwas Chauhan and driver Pradeep alias Billu, have been arrested so far in connection with the racket that was busted on September 11.
A case under sections-18/19/20 of transplantation of human organs Act, 1994 and sections 342, 420, 370, 120b of IPC had been registered against the accused in Doiwala police station. Dehradun police had arrested Dr Amit Kumar from Haryana on September 16. Some persons involved in Kidney racket are still on the run, said police.