Shahid — as also Rajender (55), Naresh (30) and Dilip (35) — are the latest victims to emerge from Kumar’s web of organ victims. Lured with promising job assurances from outside Old Delhi railway station on January 15, by one of Kumar’s innumerable touts, it’s been days of confinement for the foursome. In the ‘bargain’, they lost their kidneys to the racket.

Gurgaon Police rescued them from Valley View Apartments, on Gurgaon-Faridabad Road, after Rajender, the eldest and heftiest of the four, gave the guards a slip and called up the cops, they said.

According to them, they reached the Capital from their villages in Uttar Pradesh in search of better work prospects around a couple of months back: Shahid, a waiter back home, came from Ferozabad, Rajender, also a cook, arrived from Haridwar, Dilip, a father of seven worked as a cleaner in Amroha, while Naresh came from Bulandshar. He, too, worked as a cook back home. They said family members do not “know about our fate”.

Newsline met them in the isolation ward of Gurgaon Civil Hospital on Friday, the day after kingpin Amit Kumar was arrested in faraway Nepal.

Shahid said a tout, of Nepalese origin, approached him and Dilip outside the Old Delhi station on January 15. “He offered us a daily wage of Rs 100 for working in a Gurgoan guesthouse — the money was so good that we accepted immediately,” he said.

The same day, Rajender and Naresh were offered Rs 2,500 per month. Their job? Cook at the guesthouse. They, too, agreed.

Lodged in a plush three-bedroom flat — “it was very comfortable; the flat had TV,” said Dilip — initially, they were tested on January 17. Shahid said they were told that it was just a precautionary measure — “to ensure we were not suffering from any ailment”.

On January 23, they were taken to Amit Kumar’s clinic in Sector-23, Gurgaon.

“They wanted to do a complete check-up,” Shahid said. Rajender said it was much later that they were told their kidneys had been removed. “They offered us money — Rs 1.5 lakh each —to keep quiet. They took us back to the apartment; we were kept under constant watch.” He said three men — “they looked like Nepalese” — who cooked in the bungalow, kept a round-the-clock watch.

The police, though, are not certain whether they were locked in. Gurgaon DCP (West) Rakesh Arya said the police will also probe if they were “living on their own accord, waiting for Amit Kumar to pay them Rs 1.5 lakh”.