Apparently inspired by Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat heaping praise on the State police for its achievement in cracking the international kidney racket allegedly operating from a hospital in Doiwala, Dehradun police have conducted raids at various places to nab Dr Akshay, son of the principal accused Dr Amit Kumar, and others involved in it. Rawat had said, while addressing the sate formation gathering, that while such rackets operating in other States were yet to be cracked the police here had cracked it and arrested most of the accused.
Notably, Dehradun police had arrested the mastermind of the racket Dr Amit Kumar from Haryana on September 16. Besides, several others like Jagdish Kumar, Anupama Choudhary, Abhishek Sharma, Rajiv Choudhary, Dr Amit Kumar, Dr Jeevan, nurse Sarla, Arun kumar Pandey, Dr Ashok Tyagi, Sri Niwas Chauhan, and driver Pradeep alias Billu had been arrested so far in connection with the kidney 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.