New Delhi: Delhi Police have written to 11 private hospitals seeking details in connection with an organ transplant racket exposed by its Crime Branch earlier this month.
According to the police, the Delhi Crime branch arrested 15 people so far in the case. Additionally, police said that Sandeep Arya, the mastermind of the kidney racket case, had worked at multiple private hospitals.
Earlier this month, the Delhi Police Crime Branch unveiled modus operandi in an organ transplantation racket with international links, operating across Bangladesh and India.
According to the senior officials of the crime branch, the accused had got their jobs done at the hospitals and had also lured a doctor and a translator.The Delhi Police Crime Branch revealed that 35 transplants were conducted in two hospitals.
As per officials, the accused had created fake letterheads from hospitals in Bangladesh and only changed the email address.
Earlier on July 9, the Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested a doctor and busted the same organ transplantation racket.
Amit Goel, DCP Crime Branch, said, "Seven people have been arrested in connection with an international organ transplant racket."
Further, he said, "The mastermind of this racket was a Bangladeshi. Both the donor and the recipient were from Bangladesh. We have arrested a person named Russell, who used to arrange the patients and donors.
The female doctor involved in the transplants has also been arrested," he said. (with Agency inputs)
