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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 12. Even as raids are on to trace the main accused in the kidney transplant racket, the police are going through the hospital records to identify the receivers of kidneys illegally given to them through him and his accomplices. It is learnt that a week after the investigations, the police have zeroed in on the main accused and are hoping to arrest him soon. All the raids are being mounted at the instance of a relative of the main accused, who has already been arrested with two others, Sanjay and Mukesh, for alleged involvement in the kidney racket. Meanwhile, investigations have revealed that the gang had contacts in at least eight hospitals other than the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi for illegal kidney transplants. In another startling revelation, the police found that a number of people, most of them vagabonds across the Capital, are into the professional blood donation business for making quick money. A key accused in the case, Sanjay, said in his disclosure that the gang leader had links with the staff of at least two government and two private hospitals, other than the Research and Referral Hospital, where he had been sending people for kidney donations in Delhi. Apart from the Delhi hospitals, the main accused had links in two hospitals in Mumbai, one each in Pune and Jaipur, where he sent people from Kolkata, Ahmedabad and other nearby places. As disclosed by Sanjay, the main accused had links with a ward boy, P.K. Prasad, and a technician named Rajpal, through whom he used to strike deals with those in need of kidney at Research and Referral Hospital, as it allegedly happened in the case of the complainant, Kishore Kumar. After the operation, the main accused would keep the donors in his house for a few days to make sure that they did not report the matter to the police. Sanjay and Mukesh have revealed that scores of people in the Capital are making money by regularly donating blood in hospitals and blood banks. They claimed that people like them donated blood at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Ram Manohar Lohia, Safdarjung and other hospitals. Mukesh revealed that he often donated blood for patients of RML Hospital, while Sanjay disclosed that he was getting a handsome sum from blood donations and the commission from kidney transplant deals. During their regular visits to hospitals, Sanjay and Mukesh had come in contact with habitual donors, most of them vagabonds, and convinced several of them to give kidneys for money. Since the duo would also come to know about the blood groups of these donors from hospitals and blood banks, they could easily track down people whose blood group matched with that of the patient needing a kidney transplant.
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