The West Zone police arrested four persons, including two women, for attempting to procure kidneys from two people and selling them to ‘receivers’ by submitting fake family certificates.
The accused were identified as K. Karthik, his wife Nagamani, an accomplice V. Kanaka Mahalakshmi and a man named Tammisetti Venkaiah, all hailing from Bhavanipuram in Vijayawada. The accused were tasked with finding two kidney donors by a man named Babu Rao, who is absconding, according to West Zone Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) K. Hanumantha Rao.
Babu Rao was reportedly approached by a man named Deepak Reddy for a kidney, after which Babu Rao asked Karthik to arrange for a donor. Karthik and his wife Nagamani then asked Mahalakshmi to find a suitable donor, and promised to pay her ₹1 lakh if she could find one.
