'Kidney racket mastermind may have fled India'

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Posted online: Sunday , January 27, 2008 at 02:15:33
Updated: Sunday , January 27, 2008 at 02:32:09

Chandigarh, January 27: Haryana police said they did not rule out the possibility of the alleged mastermind of the kidney racket, Dr Amit Kumar, having fled the country, taking advantage of the network of some of his foreign clients.

"We are not ruling out the possibility that he may have escaped abroad by using his contacts. However, he will not be able to escape the legal channels," Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal said over phone.

He said the police was coordinating with various agencies to catch Kumar.

"We are not going to let him have an easy run for long. A man accused of being involved in 500 illegal transplants will not be allowed to go scot-free and we will track him down soon," he said.

Five foreign tourists, who had allegedly come for kidney transplants were found in Amit Kumar's ‘luxury guest house’ on Saturday.

He owns two hospitals in Gurgaon under the banner of Liberty Health Care Pvt Ltd, located about 5 km apart, both of which were raided on Saturday.

The Police Commissioner said police are preparing a database about the previous record of Dr Amit Kumar which will throw light about his alleged illegal activities.

Asked about Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's reported remarks in which he admitted that the police failed to uncover the scam, Lal said the Chief Minister's comments have been ‘misunderstood’.

"The Chief Minister never meant to put the blame on the police force. In fact, what he meant was that it was the collective responsibility of all of us -- the society as a whole which includes the police, media and other people," Lal said.

Police on Saturday night seized documents and equipment from a hospital in Gurgaon and sealing another in Ballabhgarh as part of its probe into the kidney racket.

"It is a police failure. We have all failed, as journalists you have also failed to uncover this till now. Whatever has happened is very unfortunate, and we are now going to take appropriate action," Hooda said on Saturday on the sidelines of a Republic Day function in Rewari.

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Comments of IGNORANT CM HOODA OVER KIDNEY MARKET IN HIS BACKYARD! by ramesh kumar on 28 Jan 2008

What can poor Hooda do!Congress must tell nation a front where they have really succeeded.One can start from Nehru.Chinese debacle.We have forgotten Dr.Dharam Teja who gave MINK COAT to Indira gandhi!It will be heartening to know that in any Congress regime has if anybody worth the name has ever been punished! WE ARE PROUD OF YOUR IGNORANCE MR.HOODA.IGNORANCE IS BLISS!

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kidney scandal doctors and ramdoss by babubhai on 28 Jan 2008

Vin Chaddha had Nehru......Quattrochi had Sonia .....and now these kidney doctors have Ramdoss as backdoor agents.any doubt .. fleeing is the safest trip ?????

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Thats a shame by Syed Zainulabedin on 27 Jan 2008

Indian government has failed to arrest culpirts who fled India no matter who he is. Even 13 years after they couldn't nabbed Dawood Ibrahim. BJP ruled 6 years alotegether and Advani was Home minister. Thats a shame It was BJP which has released the Masood Azhar and foreign minister jaswant singh flew to Khandhar along with him.

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