“Kamran’s surrender marks an important development in the case, as the police will now be able to grill him for the first time,” Superintendent of Police (Mau) P K Srivastava told The Indian Express.

Kamran had allegedly removed a kidney of Hasina Khatoon, a weaver’s wife, while performing a surgery to remove the gallstone on August 31 at his nursing home in Dakshin Tola area.

The Mau police have already arrested three others accused in the case— Iftiqar Ahmad, Mohd Qamar and nurse Shabana.

Hasina came to know about the missing kidney three weeks after the surgery when an ultrasound showed that while her gallstone was still there her right kidney was nowhere to be seen.

After running from pillar to post, Hasina’s husband Abdul Aziz succeeded in getting a case registered against Kamran and his three associates at the Dakshin Tola police station on November 7, 2007.

On the same day Ahmad and Qamar were arrested but Shabana and Kamran had gone underground.

Three days after The Indian Express reported the entire story on February 7, 2008, police arrested Shabana.

The Mau police later filed an application in the court for initiating property attachment proceedings against Kamran under Section 83 of Criminal Procedure Code. The court was scheduled to hear the matter on March 3.

“In an application filed at the Allahabad High Court to stay his arrest, Kamran had stated that he had to remove Hasina’s kidney since it had turned cancerous and added that he had sent it to a forensic lab in Varanasi for an examination. A police team, which went to the Varanasi lab, found that no such kidney was brought to the lab and it was only a diagnostic centre,” Srivastava said.