Kidney Transplant Racket: Gurugram Police Arrest 5 Bangladeshis, Including Donors & Recipients

The arrests come 10 days after an organ transplant racket spanning Haryana and Rajasthan was busted.

On Saturday, the police arrested five donors and recipients all natives of Bangladesh.

The Gurugram Police on Saturday arrested five people on charges of illegal kidney transplants. All five, believed to be from Bangladesh, were either kidney donors or recipients and were found at a Gurugram guest house where they had been lodged after surgery.

The arrests come 10 days after an organ transplant racket spanning Haryana and Rajasthan was busted. 

According to a PTI report, the donors were allegedly given Rs 2 lakh each.

The police said the mastermind of the racket is an individual named Mohammed Murtaza Ansari, a native of Jharkhand.

An FIR has been registered against Ansari and others under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 , and IPC sections 420 (cheating and dishonesty) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) at the Sadar Police Station Gurugram.

The racket, the PTI report said, was busted on April 4. The gang allegedly got kidney transplants done at two private hospitals in Jaipur, and made the recipients and donors stay in a guest house in Gurugram following the transplant.

"We have arrested all the five accused. They were sent to judicial custody after being produced in a city court today," said Arjun Dhundhara, SHO of Sadar police station, as quoted by PTI.

The accused, Dhundhara said, have been identified as recipients Kobir MD Ahasanul, 31, Nurul Islam, 56, and Mahmud Syed Akb, 25, and donors Shamim Mehndi Hasan, 34, and Hossain MD Azad, 30.

The arrests, police said, followed information received from their Rajasthan counterparts. The racket allegedly also involved the sale and purchase of fake no-objection certificates (NOCs) for organ transplants, according to IANS.