The Inter-State kidney scam having surfaced following the arrest of an agent of the gang, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) sub-inspector Bhuwanchand Punari has searched the lodging of one of the accused Rajiv Choudhary located at Nature Villa Resort in Doiwala on Friday after securing search warrant from CJM court to collect the evidences. Choudhary has been on the run since the scam surfaced.
Notably, a case under sections— 18, 19 and 20 of transplantation of human organs Act, 1994 and sections 342, 420, 370 and 120b of IPC has been registered against Rajiv Choudhary and others, including the absconding doctor Amit Kumar in Doiwala police station. SIT members are said to have recovered several documents related to the kidney racket from the house of Rajiv Choudhary. Team members recovered five different envelopes containing the medical reports of five different donors. Besides, one cheque book of Kotak Mahindra Bank and a photo copy of advertisement of Century Gangotri Hospital in English were also seized from the resort. Investigation revealed that several cases have been registered against Dr Amit Kumar in various police stations of other states.
Earlier, SIT had seized nine bank accounts of the seven accused where around Rs 74.5 lakh was found to have been deposited. Five teams constituted to probe the case are now working to unravel the racket.
The racket had been busted by a joint team from Haridwar and Dehradun police on September 11 and an agent had been arrested on the same day. Team members have been sent to Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to arrest the accused.
“All the aspects of the case are being explored,” said SIT in-charge Sarita Dobhal.
The investigation so far done has revealed that seven persons were allegedly involved in the Inter-State racket having suspected international links. They are Dr Amit Kumar, native of Gurugram, Dr Akshay Kumar alias Raut, native of Gurugram, Dr Sanjay Das, native of Arariya, Bihar, Rajeev Choudhary, native of Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, Jagdish, native of Surat, Gujarat, Chandana Gudiya, native of West Bengal and Sushma Kumari, resident of Saharsa, Bihar.
Team members have questioned Rajiv Choudhary’s wife in Rishikesh and Amit Kumar’s wife in Delhi. However, they have not revealed much as they said that they are not in contact with their husbands for long.
Notably, the state police have formed a special investigation team (SIT) led by SP Rural, Sarita Dobhal to crack the case. Police said that the kidney racket remaining operational for the past three months, many foreigners had undergone the kidney transplant at Gangotri Charitable Hospital under Uttranchal Dental College at laltappar in Doiwala.