Apollo Hospital kidney racket: Kingpin arrested in Kolkata
Rao was under police scanner for operating similar rackets in Jalandhar, Coimbatore and Hyderabad.
NEW DELHI: Alleged kingpin of the kidney racket, busted in the city’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, was arrested in Kolkata on Tuesday. “T. Rajukumar Rao, who has been evading arrest all these days, was hiding in Kolkata. We had sent police teams there and they have arrested him today (Tuesday),” said a senior police officer.
Rao, aged around 40 years, who is believed to be associated with similar rackets in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, will be brought to Delhi on transit remand. Rao was under police scanner for operating similar rackets in Jalandhar, Coimbatore and Hyderabad.
Three other persons, including two women, were arrested on Tuesday as 10 doctors will be questioned by the police. With this, the total numbers of arrested in the case has gone up to nine.
The 10 doctors, who were members of the Apollo Hospital’s internal assessment committee for transplant surgeries, will be quizzed. The three arrested are Umesh and Nilu, a couple residing in Kanpur, and Mamta alias Maumita, wife of one of the five main accused arrested earlier.