Overview
- Police issued lookout notices for four absconding doctors tied to the network, recorded the donor’s statement, and expanded the probe to several cities with possible Nepal links.
- Following Monday night’s raids at Ahuja, Medlife and Priya hospitals in Kanpur, officers arrested six people, including a doctor couple, three other doctors and an ambulance operator.
- The case began when MBA student Ayush reported a Rs 50,000 short payment after agreeing to sell a kidney, and both he and recipient Parul Tomar are now under treatment at LLR Hospital.
- Investigators say the ring carried out roughly 40 to 50 illegal transplants over years, including one involving a South African woman, with donors paid a fraction of the tens of lakhs charged to recipients.
- Evidence shows a structured setup that used Telegram to recruit donors, moved patients between hospitals, flew in surgical teams, and switched off CCTV to hide records, and authorities have sealed one facility and issued notices to others under transplant and criminal laws.