Gurugram: Teams of CM Flying Squad and health department in a joint raid at Babil Guest House in Sector 39 Gurugram on Thursday took into possession two donors and three patients busting a gang involved in illegal organ trade and transplantation of kidney illegally, both the donors as well as patients have been identified as Bangladeshis, who were taken to Jaipur for the surgeries in two private hospitals. Preliminary investigation revealed that the racket engageds in Bangladesh who were allegedly used to lure people both donors and the patients through advertisements on Facebook to be aware of the matter, bring them in the country on health ground Visa. The Bangladeshi donors during preliminary investigation told the police that they were contacted by a middleman from the gang and they agreed to sell their kidneys at Rs 30000 as they were in dire need of money, which was being sold to the patients between Rs 10 to 12 Crores.
Alok Mittal, additional director general of police (CID), Haryana said a joint raid by a team of the CM flying squad, district health department and the Gurugram police during a raid at the guest house busted a gang that was allegedly involved in illegal organ trade. who were to be taken to a private hospital at Jaipur for kidney surgeries. Arjun Dev, station house officer of Sadar police station, said when they reached the guest house, they found two donors from Bangladesh identified as Shamim Mehandi Hasan (24) and Hussain (30) both were unemployed and in need of money and three recipients staying in different rooms in the guest house who were identified as Islam (56), Kobeer (33) and Mehmood (25) all hailing from Bangladesh having no relationship among them.
Based on the information provided by the five, the mastermind of the gang was identified as Mohammed Murtaza Ansari ,a permanent resident of village Karge in Ranchi (Jharkhand) presently working with a private hospital and possessing contacts with the concerned staff of private hospitals , the SHO said.
Investigation revealed that the racket members used to take donors and the patients for kidney surgery at Jaipur in Rajasthan and after two days bring them back to Gurugram guest house for about three to four weeks. Information also revealed that the blood and other necessary tests required in case of such surgeries were not being conducted by the hospital. Police officer said, when asked by hospital management, they were not prepared to say anything in his regard. Information reveals, Ansari is absconding since after the police raid, once he is arrested police will get all the details regarding the modus operandi and operations of the gang. The donors on the other hand told police that they were contacted by an agent of the gang and immediately agreed to sell their kidney as they were in dire need of money.
According to police information, the suspects had managed to pass off the donors as close relatives of the organ recipients after making their fake profiles and ID cards and the documents will be recovered from the hospital as well to check the case they presented before the hospital. As per law, organ donation is only legal between living relatives, resulting in a chronic shortage of kidneys for transplant said Dr Pawan Chaudhary, deputy civil surgeon of Gurugram also a member of the raiding team said, the raid was conducted in Sector 39 guest house on a secret complaint received that a nexus of organ transplant is run by Ansari. He said, when the raiding team reached the guest house, the guest house owner was present and disclosed that five of the guests from Bangladesh are currently staying and he suspects that they are patients who were brought by one middleman identified as Ansari. During questioning of the guests, all natives of Bangladesh, it was revealed that they are donors and recipients of the Kidney who were treated at a prominent hospital of Jaipur. The donor and the recipient said they are not in blood relation to each other. When donor and recipient were enquired about the no objection certificate or any permission from the authority, neither the donor nor the recipients could produce any such document.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan state health minister Gajinder Singh has demanded a complete report in this regard from the Additional Chief Secretary. Earlier, in 2008 a similar kidney transplantation racket in Palam Vihar area in Gurugram jointly by U.P and Haryana police was busted in which theracket members used to bring donors from below poverty line families or unemployed youths since a long time from U.P for transplantation of kidneys in patients from other countries including USA, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia and the mystery was exposed during a police raid in a guest house in which police rescued nearly two dozen persons in dire need of money, offering their kidney for Rs 30000.
