The recipient, a 54-year-old Malad-based affluent businessman, and the donor, a 29-year-old driver from Taloja, now face charges for breach of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (THOA).
A police source said Prajapati and Nizamuddin got in touch with Khosla and the donor through social media and made arrangements for the transplant in the Egyptian capital.
The couple has been identified as Sanjay and Shushma Das while Kumar’s son has been identified as Akshay.
It was a policeman overhearing a random conversation at a tea shop between two drivers who were tasked to ferry kidney donors to Gangotri Charitable Hospital on the outskirts of Dehradun (from where the recently busted kidney racket was being run) that eventually led to the whole affair coming out in the open
A year after Powai-based Hiranandani Hospital lost its licence to conduct transplants after the kidney racket bust in 2016, there was high drama late on Tuesday over a potential cadaver donor there.
Months after a kidney kingpin of north India was arrested from Kolkata, another major racket -operating online -has been detected by one of the top hospitals of the city.
Police have also requested the government for expert help to study technical details of the case.
A 37-year-old man was arrested from Kolkata for his involvement in the kidney racket busted at Batra Hospital last week.The man's name had popped up in some documents seized by the police from the hospital.
Each receiver would have to pay Rs 35-40 lakh. The donor would be paid 10% of the amount while the rest would be distributed among touts and staff members of the hospital, who would facilitate the operations.
Visibly shaken by the verbal assault, Apollo COO Rana Dasgupta made a feeble attempt to seek the cover of expensive equipment and cutting-edge clinical excellence."We have a protocol which raises our costs.
Over six months ago, police had busted a kidney racket at the hospital and cancelled the licences of the hospital and transplant surgeons.
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