A Kolkata court on Wednesday granted three days’ transit remand for T Rajkumar Rao the alleged kingpin in the inter-State kidney racket.
Delhi Police arrested Rao from his palatial house at Rjarhaat township and is likely to produce him at Saket court in Delhi by or on June 11.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Apurba Ghosh granted the transit remand to Delhi Police, said DK Sikar, the lawyer of the accused, adding he has been booked under sections 419, 420, 468, 120B and 471 of the Indian Penal Code. A case had also been registered under Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994.
The 40-year-old accused runs an inter-state network of stolen kidneys apart from running his “business” in Nepal, Indonesia and Sri lanka sources said.
Rao was arrested on Tuesday from his palatial house at Rajarhaat where he lived along with his wife and daughter, police said adding at least 10 doctors from eastern India were involved in the racked and could be questioned in near future.
The police were also looking for Dipak Kar a co-accused and an accomplice of Rajkumar who is said to have met Rajkumar at Coimbatore way back in 2008 and supplied him patients for a commission of `5,000 to `10,000.
Rao’s name came to the fore following interrogation of three persons Asim Sikdar, Devashis Moulik and Satya Prakash, police said adding other persons who have been arrested in the case are Umesh Srivastava, his wife Neelu, natives of Kanpur and Momita Mauli from Siliguri.
Rao was introduced to the “profession” by Dipak Kar, police claimed.