New Delhi: The Delhi Police in the illegal kidney transplant racket have sought details of the documentation process of organ transplantation from Noida’s health department days after seven people, including three Bangladeshi nationals and a female doctor, were arrested. The Delhi Crime Branch has sought the details from the Noida health department and also written a letter to the office of the district chief medical officer. As per the police officials as the investigation in kidney racket is progressing it appears that other doctors and medical staff are also involved and part of the alleged racket. The details sought by the crime branch include the procedure which the private hospitals follow for kidney or any other organ transplant in Noida.
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The Delhi Police Crime Branch last week acting on a tip-off had nabbed at least seven people, including a 50-year-old Delhi-based woman doctor in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket running across Bangladesh and the Delhi-NCR region. The woman doctor then working as a kidney transplant surgeon on a “fee-for-service basis” in the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in southeast Delhi, was allegedly involved in the transplant surgeries of around 15 people from Bangladesh between 2021 and 2023, the police said. The surgeon has allegedly conducted the surgeries in Noida-based Yathartha Hospital where she was a visiting consultant. The other arrested persons included an assistant of the doctor, identified as Vikram Singh, and three Bangladeshi nationals identified as Rasel, Mohammad Sumon Miyan and Mohammad Rokon alias Rahul Sarkar alias Bijay Mondal.
