Bangladesh-India Kidney Transplant Racket: Delhi Police Seeks Organ Transplant Documentation Details

New Delhi: The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has sought the details from the Noida Health Department regarding the organ transport documentation process after an illegal International kidney transplant racket was busted at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. 

According to official sources, days after the arrest of seven individuals, including three Bangladeshi nationals and a female doctor, in connection with an illegal kidney transplant racket, Delhi Police has initiated steps to gather information from the Noida health department regarding the documentation process for organ transport. 

The Crime Branch has sought the details from the Noida health department and also written a letter to the office of the district chief medical officer, they said.

According to a PTI report, an officer, while confirming the development, said the investigations into the kidney racket is going deeper as the Crime Branch has suspected the role of other doctors or medical staff into it.

Medical Dialogues team recently reported that busting an international kidney transplant racket spanning Bangladesh and India, the Delhi Crime Branch Police arrested a female doctor from Delhi-based Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for allegedly performing around 15-16 transplants for nearly two years at a private hospital in Noida and charged Rs 2-3 lakh for each transplant.

Acting on a tip-off, the Delhi Police Crime Branch last week nabbed at least seven people, including a 50-year-old Delhi-based woman doctor in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket running across Bangladesh and the Delhi-NCR region.

The woman doctor identified as D Vijaya Rajakumari, then working as a kidney transplant surgeon on a "fee-for-service basis" in the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in southeast Delhi, was allegedly involved in the transplant surgeries of around 15 people from Bangladesh between 2021 and 2023, the police said.

Dr Rajakumari allegedly conducted the surgeries in Noida-based Yathartha Hospital where she was a visiting consultant.

The other arrested persons included an assistant of the doctor identified as Vikram Singh and three Bangladeshi nationals identified as Rasel, Mohammad Sumon Miyan and Mohammad Rokon alias Rahul Sarkar alias Bijay Mondal, adds news agency PTI.

The arrests took place over the two-week operation, the police said.