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Kidney kingpin Dr Amit lands in Delhi

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Posted online: Saturday , February 09, 2008 at 07:13:32
Updated: Saturday , February 09, 2008 at 07:31:30


Kathmandu, February 9: Dr Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore rupees kidney racket, was on Saturday deported to India.

Forty-year-old Kumar, who was arrested from a jungle resort in Chitwan in southern Nepal on Thursday, was handed over to a two-member CBI team on Saturday evening.

He reached New Delhi by IC-814.

CBI had registered a case against Kumar and others on Friday night on a request from the Haryana government under various sections of Indian Penal Code and Human Organ Transplant Act of 1994.

Nepalese authorities, which had on Friday announced that Kumar would be produced in court on Sunday, acceded to India's request for immediate deportation.

Kumar was arrested from Hotel Wildlife Camp in Chitwan near the Indo-Nepal border and foreign currency of Euro 145,000, USD 18,900 and an Indian bank draft of Rs 936,000 were seized from his possession.

The Indian doctor, who was believed to have carried out 500 illegal kidney transplants, claimed he was not a kidney dealer and had not committed any crime.

Nepalese police said after questioning Kumar that he had ‘confessed’ to carrying out over 300 kidney transplants in India.

Nepalese police said that Kumar 'admitted' to charging Rs 3-4 lakh for each transplant. He ‘confessed’ to looking for hospitals in Nepal through an agent Pankaj Jha, who is now absconding.

An Interpol Red Corner Notice was issued against the tainted doctor after the massive racket with inter-state and international ramifications came to light on January 24.

Nepalese media reports quoted a police official as saying that Kumar had tried to bribe the police team which went to arrest him.

Police Inspector Prakash Malla, who went to arrest Kumar, told a private television that the Indian doctor offered upto Rs 1 crore to set him free.

"Why do you arrest me, take money, how much do you need? Twenty lakh, thirty lakh, forty lakh or one crore?" Malla quoted Kumar as saying.

Police said they also recovered some fake documents from him which indicated that he was trying to acquire Nepalese citizenship and another passport apparently to help him fly to Canada to join his family there.

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kamina by deepak on 05 Mar 2008

i hate this man

indian passport make by deepak sharma on 20 Feb 2008

hello this is take raj raj dhikett from patiala bat countery is the nepal plz tell me i make indian passport plz this passport frup send me what should i do now?

Amit caught......Haneef escaped !! by KMR Overseas on 11 Feb 2008

he should have consulted Haneef to take advise on how to escape. Haneef escaped from Ausis net that too with extensive media publicity!!

HORROR IS UGLY WORD by swami. on 10 Feb 2008

Dear Editor,Dear Editor, How the Police left this Horror Doctor to do evil from 1994... I am sure everyone is hand hand to get the benefit of MONEY....IT IS TIME ALL SHOULD BE BOOKED AND IN THE MIDST OF PUBLIC THEIR KIDNEYS SHOULD BE REMOVED.

Dr. Amit arrested by Megh on 10 Feb 2008

If he is guilty, hang him and set an example for others who might think of treading in his path for a life of ill gotten wealth and last not but the least, donate his organs.

GOOD SHOW CBI by Girish Bhardwaj on 10 Feb 2008

Good Show

An interesting legal case ! by Sharad C. Misra on 10 Feb 2008

Dr. Kidney Kumar is a big catch indeed ! But we are sure, his clients must be important people including politicians, industrialists and rich businessmen who would work hard to see that their names are not disclosed. In fact, they would take the plea that by purchasing kidneys from them for saving their own lives they have committed no crime, the same way as they buy any other commodity in the market without making sure that it was not stolen or ill-gotten. Therefore, we anticipate that the legal case against the doctor would linger on for years and if the charges against him are proved he would alone would be convicted exonerating his clients from the charge of complicity and collusion.

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