Delhi Police Crack Down on International Organ Transplant Racket

Delhi Police have sought details from 11 private hospitals in connection with an international organ transplant racket. So far, 15 people have been arrested, including the mastermind and a doctor. The racket involved fake documents and had links to Bangladesh.

Delhi Police have written to 11 private hospitals seeking details in connection with an organ transplant racket exposed by its Crime Branch earlier this month. According to the police, the Delhi Crime branch has arrested 15 people so far in the case.

Additionally, police said that Sandeep Arya, the mastermind of the kidney racket case, had worked at multiple private hospitals. Earlier this month, the Delhi Police Crime Branch unveiled the modus operandi of an organ transplantation racket with international links, operating across Bangladesh and India.

According to senior officials of the crime branch, the accused had completed their tasks at the hospitals and had also lured a doctor and a translator into their scheme. The Delhi Police Crime Branch revealed that 35 transplants were conducted in two hospitals.

As per officials, the accused had created fake hospital letterheads from Bangladesh and only changed the email addresses. The organ racketeers were aware that their emails would be sent to concerned hospitals in Bangladesh and used this knowledge to facilitate their operations.

New email IDs were created since the accused were unable to hack the existing ones. Upon receiving emails from Indian hospitals regarding documents, the accused themselves responded positively. The donors and recipients were trained to answer in Bengali to take advantage of potential language barriers during the interview process.

The translator, who was involved in the racket, informed the team about the prepared details, regardless of the patients' given answers. Donors and recipients were coached to avoid contradictions during panel interviews. Police will seek details from the Bangladesh embassy regarding the donors and recipients. The priority now is to verify documents submitted by the hospitals, with further action on the accused pending.

Earlier on July 9, the Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested a doctor and busted the same organ transplantation racket. Amit Goel, DCP Crime Branch, said, "Seven people have been arrested in connection with an international organ transplant racket."

He added, "The mastermind of this racket was a Bangladeshi. Both the donor and the recipient were from Bangladesh. We have arrested a person named Russell, who arranged the patients and donors. A female doctor involved in the transplants has also been arrested."

(With inputs from agencies.)