Gurugram Police on Saturday arrested five Bangladeshi nationals on charges of commercial business of organ transplants, including kidneys. The three recipients and two donors are all from Bangladesh, news agency PTI reported. The mastermind of the racket, Mohammad Murtaza Ansari, a resident of Jharkhand, is still absconding.
Sadar police station SHO Arjun Dhundhara said, “We have arrested all the five accused. They were sent to judicial custody after producing them in a city court today.”
The racket was exposed after a raid at a hotel in Gurugram Sector-39, where a Bangladeshi national was found who had undergone kidney removal procedure at a hospital in Jaipur under “suspicious” financial arrangements.
According to the police, the donors had taken Rs 2 lakh each for kidney transplant. After the transplant, the gang allegedly accommodated the recipient and the donor in a guest house in Gurugram. The five donors and recipients now arrested were staying in a Gurugram guest house after kidney transplant surgery.
The names of the kidney recipients who have been arrested are Kobir MD Ahsanul (31), Nurul Islam (56) and Mahmood Syed Akab (25). The arrested donors are Shamim Mehndi Hasan (34) and Hussain MD Azad (30).
The arrest comes 10 days after organ transplant rackets were busted in Haryana and Rajasthan. Earlier on April 4, Gurugram Police, along with a joint team of CM Flying Squad and District Health Department, had busted a gang that conducted kidney transplants for money in two private hospitals of Jaipur.
