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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, NOV. 9. It made headlines and created a political uproar when the story of this 20-year-old illiterate rickshaw puller robbed of his kidney broke out six years ago. Much publicity, many gasp of disbelief and outburst of anger later, the world moved on to other stories, failing to keep-up with what happened to this young man. Only Akram Raza Khan, who had then accused top politicians for having conspired, was determined not to become another forgotten story and began "writing" about his experience with help from friends. What has emerged six years later is an extraordinary story of courage and self-reliance titled "They Stole My Kidney", published and released in the Capital today by Media House in three languages -- Hindi, English and Malayalam. The story told in less than hundred pages speaks of the horror that this illiterate man faced when he was picked up from Charbagh railway station in Lucknow on March 14, 1998; a night he recalls as the "high point of his life". "What happened after I was picked up was like a bad dream. I was brought to Delhi with the promise of a good job and here I was forced to undergo several tests after which I was taken to Jalandhar to be operated in a kidney hospital. I managed to escape much later," he said, blaming a leading politician and the general manager of a telephone exchange at Hissar in Haryana for planning out and executing the crime. "I am yet to get any feedback from the National Human Rights Commission where I had registered my case and justice has been denied to me due to the big names involved in the case." Khan now works as a stringer with Jeevan T.V., but wants his book to be translated into all Indian languages so that no one else falls victim to such abuse. An aspiring actor, who claims to have done small roles in daily soaps, Khan revealed that talks were on with film directors Meera Nair and Deepa Mehta to turn his life story into a film with him in the main role. "My story is about a brave battle against the powerful kidney racketeers who have listed out poor people as their victims. I want to become a well know actor and give voice to the voiceless and tell their stories. Today I have very little chance of getting married or even having a stable well paying job being an illiterate. I want to get justice, open an old age home and also work for a system which is accountable to even poor people. My struggle will go on and I will rest only when I ensure that I have managed to save lives like mine."
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