Amritsar, January 23
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) today conducted a number of raids to nab the accomplices of Dr Parveen Sareen, prime accused in the kidney scam, immediately after rejection of their anticipatory bail in the court today.
Those who had applied for anticipatory bail included Dr Bhupinder Singh Sandhu, Dr Bhushan Aggarwal, Dr P.K. Sareen, Dr Rajinder Kaur, Mr Hardyal Mehra, Manager of Kakkar Hospital, and Mr Kulwinder Singh, computer operator of Dr Sareen (counsel of the SIT had pleaded that the accomplices of Dr Sareen were not cooperating and, hence, there was need to interrogate them in custody. The SIT had presented some ‘concrete proof’ against the alleged culprits involved in the multi-crore scam. The police alleged that it was difficult to find to out the ‘real’ addresses of the donors which had been found to be ‘fake’.
The SIT felt that it was necessary to have custodial interrogation of the accomplices of Dr Sareen even as more than 20 ‘unclaimed donors’ were cremated. It said the family members of such donors could get information about the ‘deaths’ after the interrogation of the aides of Dr Sareen.
Mr Hardyal Mehta has already admitted to underhand
deals being struck during kidney transplant.
Meanwhile, the kidney scam today took a fresh turn when Ashok Kumar, a resident of Batala, recorded his statement before the SIT alleging that a kidney of his son Sumeet was removed without their consent.
He alleged that his son was admitted in Kakkar Hospital in a critical condition after falling from the roof of the house in 1998. Doctors
attending on him allegedly removed his kidney. “When asked, the doctors said that his kidney was damaged and had to be removed”, he alleged.
