Amit Kumar’s police custody extended

Agencies Posted: Mar 03, 2008 at 1611 hrs
Jaipur, March 3: A local court on Monday extended the police custody of organ transplant racket prime accused Dr Amit Kumar for another two days in connection with a case pertaining to removal of a man's kidney in a village in Jaipur in 1995.

During his 5 days police custody that ended on Monday, Kumar had admitted to the police that he had conducted 13 kidney transplants in Jaipur while he was working in Shyam Nursing Home in 1990s, police sources said.

The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ajay Sharma accepting the plea of the police extended Kumar's police custody for another two days, Raghuraj Singh, SHO of Sodala

Police Station said.

The sources also said Kumar admitted that he was not a MBBS doctor but was a BAMS degree holder, and a Rajasthan Police team is in Akola district of Maharastra to ascertain

some other facts related to the case.

Kumar is accused of illegally and deceitfully removing kidneys and a case was registered against the doctor and others at the Sodala Police Station in 1995 after a man from Bodhala village in the area accused them of forcibly removing one of his kidneys.

On February 28, the court remanded Kumar to five days in police custody.