Jalandhar kidney racket: Delhi cops produce accused in court; get 2-day custody
A four-member team of the Delhi police on Monday brought Satya Prakash alias Ashu, one of accused in the kidney racket busted at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in the national capital, and produced him in a local court on Monday evening.
A four-member team of the Delhi police on Monday brought Satya Prakash alias Ashu, one of accused in the kidney racket busted at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in the national capital, and produced him in a local court on Monday evening.
The court sent Ashu to two-day custody of the local police.
The city police want to quiz him in a similar racket unearthed at the city’s National Kidney Hospital last year.
The accused had donated his kidney to one Tariq Ahmed of Kanpur by posing as his brother Sadiq at the local hospital.
In the last week, the city police had procured his production warrants and went Delhi to bring him for interrogation but same was denied by the Delhi police.
The accused was allegedly part of the Jalandhar kidney racket being run by Junaid Ahmed Khan. Khan along with three others was the first to be arrested in July last year.
Khan and his aides used to forge documents in connivance with the hospital staff to show several donors and recipients as close relatives.
Harwinder Singh, a helper at a local laboratory owned by one of the owners of the hospital, was arrested soon after the racket was unearthed.
On March 25 this year, the city police had submitted an 855-page supplementary chargesheet against 17 persons in this connection.
A special investigation team (SIT) headed by Amritsar deputy commissioner of police (DCP) J Elachezhian with Jalandhar DCP Harjit Singh, addtional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP investigation) Vivek Sheel Soni and police station-7 station house officer Navdeep Singh as its embers is carrying out the probe.