The Commissionerate police have arrested a youth from Bhubaneswar for allegedly duping crores of rupees from kidney patients on the pretext of arranging donors. The youth Himanshu Bhusan Nanda is a resident of Nuapatna in Pattamundai of Kendrapada district and was staying in the Uttara area of the capital city, police said.
He was arrested in connection with a case registered in 2019. As per the complaint, Nanda had duped one Pratap Chandra Mishra of the Nayapalli area of Rs 5.50 lakh on the pretext of arranging a kidney for him.
Later, police produced him before court and appealed for a three-day remand of the accused for interrogation. After knowing Nanda’s arrest, one Lily Sahu residing in Laxmisagar area lodged similar complaint against him at the Laxmisagar police station on Wednesday. As per the complaint, the accused has taken Rs 1.19 lakh from the woman, a native of Angul district, by assuring to arrange a kidney donor for her.
From preliminary investigation, it is found that the kingpin was running the racket from a shop ‘Sai Home Interior’ at Gudia Pokhari Chhak here. His agents inform him about patients seeking kidney donors. As court’s permission is required for kidney transplantation, the accused charges such gullible people huge amount of money on the pretext of getting them the court approval letter.
Later, he prepared and gave a fake court approval letter to the victims and took lakhs of rupees in return. In many cases, the patient reportedly die after failing to avail a kidney.
Police said Nanda has duped many such people of over Rs 10 crore through this racket.