Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested the alleged mastermind and three kidney donors, including two women, involved in the organ trafficking racket at Indraprastha Apollo hospital.
T. Rajkumar was arrested from Kolkata along with three donors - two women from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur and a man from West Bengal's Siliguri
We arrested the mastermind of the kidney racket T. Rajkumar alias Raju from Kolkata and three kidney donors, who include two women," Deputy Commissioner of Police Mandeep Singh Randhawa said.
After chasing the accused to six cities including Chennai's Coimbatore he was finally arrested from a border area near Calcutta, he added.
Earlier, the police busted the kidney racket with the arrest of two Indraprastha Apollo hospital employees and three touts on the charge of persuading economically-needy people to sell their kidneys on June 2.
Police had said Shailesh Saxena, 31, and Aditya Singh, 24, who work as personal secretaries to two Apollo hospital doctors, were held for organising the kidney trade.
The three arrested touts were identified as Aseem Sikdar, 37, Satya Prakash, 30, and Devashish Moulik, 30.
"They also prepared forged papers including the identity proofs to establish the relationship between the donors and the recipients."
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