SIT nabs 3 culprits including Ahmedabad man in Kidney removal scam

Anand

The special investigating team (SIT) constituted by Anand district police in connection with the alleged Kidney selling scam in Gujarat, has arrested three accused including a fake ayurvedic doctor from different places in the state.

Dy SP of Petlad in Anand, M R Gupta, who is heading the SIT and the Police Inspector of Local Crime Branch (LCB) Haresh Vora today said that one of the main accused Mukesh alias Mukul Chaudhary, whose father was an Ayurvedic doctor and who was practicing without a degree, has been nabbed from his native village of Valod in Tapi-Vyara district of South Gujarat.

Two other accused, who had turned brokers for Kidney transplant patients after donating their own Kidney, Mohammed Rafiq Vora, a resident of Pandoli under Pandesara taluka of Anand district from where maximum such cases have emerged and Sheru Pathan, a resident of Chandola Talav area in Ahmedabad have also been nabbed, Mr. Vora said.

In the initial report names of four accused were mentioned by our team of whom the above three have been nabbed from there respective places and hunt is on for the remaining one, he said.

‘So far 13 cases of Kidney selling or deceitful removal has been confirmed during the medical examination conducted in Ahmedabad civil hospital. We appeal to more such people to come forward to inform the SIT to help us in the investigation,’ the PI, a prominent member of the SIT, said adding that almost half of the 13 cases were only two to three year old.

The SIT was formed by Anand Police recently when some youths from Pandoli village alleged their kidneys were surgically removed at different times since 2001 without their knowledge after making them unconscious.

It is alleged that some of the victims were even taken to Colombo for removal of Kidney.The SIT is investigating the sensational matter.

– DeshGujarat