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Kidney Scam Gurgaon, January 30 Joint commissioner of police Manjet S. Ahlawat said during interrogation Pooja told the police that she used to collect money from the clients, who used to come for operation to the hospital. She also revealed that she used to arrange transportation for the patients. He further said Pooja had been arrested under the Criminal Act and had been sent to a seven-day police remand by the district and sessions court, Gurgaon. The police is now interrogating her to know the complete modus operandi of the kidney racket and how it was operated. They are also trying to unravel the role played by Pooja in the racket. Pooja told the police that she had dropped her husband at Sabdargagh Enclave the day raid was conducted at the Gurgaon clinic. Ahlawat said arrest warrant had been issued against Amit, the mastermind of the racket, and his companion Jeevan. A team of the Haryana police had been sent to Moradabad with production warrant of Upender, Jagdish and Isadh.
The Other Side: Samastipur (Bihar), January 30 As national newspapers broke the story of an international kidney sale racket on the outskirts of the national capital, two-and-a-half year old Sunni lost the battle of life at the Sadar hospital in Samastipur, about 100 km from here. And Amarjit Rai and his wife, residents of Shahpurpatori in Samastipur district, were left grieving, wondering why they could not sell their kidneys in time to save him. “Sunni’s death defeated his poor parents determination to save him at the cost of their own life,” said Kamlesh Mahto, an activist. Before Sunni died, the couple had been roaming the streets of Samastipur looking for prospective buyers and for ways to earn
money for their child’s treatment. The couple was desperate. “Sir, I am ready to sell my kidney for the treatment of my son,” Rai told IANS a day before his son died. He had left his native village with his wife and son last week to hawk his kidney for money in the state capital. “Our kidneys are up for sale. But we will sell them for not less than Rs.250,000,” Rai said. A landless farmer, Rai was working as a rickshaw-puller in New Delhi till last year to earn a livelihood for his family. Rai said his son developed health problems after a quack (doctor) in Delhi administered some medicine that had expired. “Since then, my son has been ill. We consulted the (Delhi-based) Hindu Rao hospital for treatment, the doctors told us that he was suffering from blood cancer,” Rai said. Doctors of Hindu Rao hospital as well as those in Patna said the treatment was costly and “would not be possible without money”. “I returned from Delhi along with my family because life in the capital was expensive. I made efforts to raise money, knocked on all doors but everything failed. Now I have no option but to sell a kidney for my son’s treatment,” Rai had said. Like thousands of poor people in rural Bihar, Rai migrated to New Delhi in search of a livelihood and became a rickshaw puller. But he was forced to return to his native village after his son was found suffering from blood cancer. Sunni had been admitted to the children’s ward of the Sadar Hospital in Samastipur Monday for treatment and doctors assured him of help. “They promised to arrange for a medical loan of Rs.25,000 for initial treatment. But it was too late to save him, we realised that poor like us were helpless,” Rai said.
— IANS Toronto: Amit Kumar is suspected to have fled to Canada ahead of police raids that shut down the operation last week. Kumar, dubbed as “Dr Horror” by media for allegedly supplying hundreds of kidneys bought or coerced from the country’s poor, was reportedly running the operation partly from an unknown location in Canada, where his family is said to be living, Canadian daily National Post reported on Tuesday. A Canadian police spokesperson said that Canadian authorities currently have “limited information” about the Indian police investigation.
— Agencies
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