New Delhi, February 4
The Centre has endorsed the Haryana government’s request for a CBI probe into the shocking kidney racket in Gurgaon, setting the process in motion for the Indian premier investigating agency to investigate and unravel international links of Amit Kumar, the alleged ‘doctor’ kingpin absconding since January 24.
“The Haryana government had sent a request for a CBI probe (into the kidney racket case) to the department of personnel, which has endorsed by it to us,” CBI director Vijay Shanker told The Tribune over phone here today.
The CBI is expected to file an FIR before formally launching its probe into the one of the biggest kidney racket case, which had shocked the country.
“It (the probe request) needs a further process and fulfilling of certain aspects of law before we actually start our probe,” Shanker said when asked whether the agency has commenced its probe into the racket.
The CBI is expected to constitute a special team under a joint director to probe the racket, which had drawn the attention of the people across the world.
The CBI, being the member of the Interpol, is well-equipped to probe and unravel the international links of Dr Amit, grim details of which is still tumbling out. Interpol’s help would be helpful to the CBI in exposing Amit’s so-called links with Mumbai underworld don Chhota Shakeel, as disclosed by his key associate Upendra Kumar Aggarwal to the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad town.
The CBI is also expected to vet the details of several visitors from Canada, the Middle East, the US and other European countries to get into the depth and spread of Amit’s illegal kidney transplant racket.
The premier investigating agency is also expected to examine not only Aggarwal, who is spilling the beans to the joint teams of Moradabad and Gurgaon police, but also Linda Chini Hoi, a suspended nurse of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, his assistant Rebecca, drivers Jagdish and Harpal, his cooks Ramesh and Suresh as well as Dr K.K. Aggarwal, an associate of Aggarwal’s picked up from Alwar in Rajasthan on February 1.
