Kathmandu: Nepalese police was hot on the trail of the tainted doctor Amit Kumar and had also identified the hotels he was staying in the Himalayan nation before he was nabbed following suspicions he had business links in this country.
Suspicions of Indian investigators that the tainted doctor Amit Kumar could be hiding in Nepal came true after his arrest in the Himalayan nation today, a fortnight after he absconded from India after the daring kidney transplantation racket was busted in Gurgaonnear Delhi.
Amit's close friend and partner Dr Upendra, who was arrested, possibly gave the first clues of his business links in Nepal when he claimed before the sleuths probing the murky racket that the mastermind owns a big hospital in Nepal.
Also,the police also reportedly unearthed a local illegal transplant ring strengthening suspicions of possible links with the Indian doctor.
During the interrogation, Upendra said that Amit had close connections with several Nepali ministers, which allegedly helped him in establishing a base there.
Dr Amit was to leave for Nepal last month to operate five Turkish patients. He was to leave for Nepal on Jan 26, he said.
The illegal kidney racket mastermind also had an agent in Nepal named Kavita, who was waiting for him along with five patients, he added.
The Nepalese police also found a match of his passport number and the entries in the hotels he checked into, sources said.
Police sources also said that Kumar had received calls from three local mobile numbers.
There were speculations in the Nepalese media that Kumar is in this country looking for ways to join his family in Canada or remain underground till the heat is on.
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