International Kidney Racket Busted

Top urologists and private surgeons in New Delhi are under Uttar Pradesh Police scanner in connection with a sensational international kidney racket, spreading across Turkey and the Middle East countries.

So far 13 persons have been arrested in connection with this racket. The list of arrested includes the CEO of Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute(PSRI) Dr Deepak Shukla. Along with the, two leading doctors of Fortis hospital have also been served notice in the kidney racket.

Police is carrying out investigation against another leading hospital located in central Delhi and more arrests are likely to be made.

Police informed that the Fortis Hospital has been served notice in cases relating to the violation of Transplantation of Human Organs Act.

Apart from Fortis and PSRI, the role of one more hospital of Delhi has come to light where poor people were being cheated by doctors and hospital administration through an organised chain of middlemen.

It may be mentioned here that the police has launched a massive hunt for one Dr Ketan Kaushik. He is a key accused in the case.

According to police, Kaushik brought patients for kidney transplants from countries like Turkey, UAE and other places in the middle east.

Police has said that the racket is spread far and wide and different groups are operating in different regions.

So far the police has been successful to bust one of the groups linked with Delhi-based hospitals.

The police also said that Dr Deepak Shukla's name was revealed by at least 10 accused involved in the case. Shukla will be confronted with accused already arrested by the police.

Source from the police also informed that there is enough evidence to prove that the accused removed kidneys of at least 12 donors for a huge amount of money taken from the recipients family.

After extracting the kidneys, donors were paid just Rs 2 or 3 lakhs while recipients were charged Rs 70 to Rs 80 lakhs per transplant.

It is interesting to inform here that investigaltions led to the discovery of global links and Delhi-based doctor Ketan Kaushik was found to be handling international clientele for the group.

Police is thoroughly interrogating Dr Shukla and other key accused and they have said that more names will surface in the coming weeks.

The revelation of the involvements of so many acclaimed surgeons with this international kidney racket has sent ripples across the medical fraternity of the country.