Bangalore, Jan 6, 2013 DHNS:
The Ramanagara Police, on Saturday, named Columbia Asia, Manipal,
Apollo, and Victoria Hospital, among others, in connection with the
kidney transplant racket.
Briefing reporters, Ramanagara District Superintendent of Police
Anupam Agarwal, said, the special police team was probing the nature of
involvement of authorities in these hospitals in connection with the
racket.
The police team, led by Kumbalagodu Police Inspector Manjunath,
on December 31, 2012, had arrested two persons — Mahadeva and Gopala.
They later arrested C D Srikanth, a contract labourer in food and
civil supplies office in Magadi, along with two other accused Rajanna
and Manjunatha, a taluk office employee. The police also arrested
Bangalore North Taluk Revenue Inspector Ranjan and another agent Ananth,
for getting fake documents certified and assisting the accused in the
operations.
Mahadeva and Gopala, it is understood, were engaged in luring the
poor into donating kidneys in return for money in Kumbalagodu police
station limits, while Shrikanth was aiding the gang in creating fake
documents. The police have seized a computer, scanner and hard disk
used to fabricate the documents.
According to the modus operandi kidney transplantation was done
after fake documents were certified and approved, and the recipients
made to cough up between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh. Only 10 or 20 per
cent was given to the donors with the rest distributed among the agents.
Basic policing helped the newly commissioned Kumbalgodu police
station cops to bust the kidney racket. The police did not buy the
theory of Laksmi of Dodda Gollarahalli in Bangalore when she sought
permission to donate her kidney to her distant relative. She had claimed
that she belonged to scheduled tribe. The police interrogated her and
after verification found that she was a Lingayat.
The police began the probe which led to the cracking of the racket, Kumbalgodu Police Inspector Manjunath said.
Based on tips provided by her, the police arrested Mahadeva of
Kanakapura and Gopala of Ramanagar at Mariyappanapalya.The duo
identified poor persons at bus stands and markets and lured them to
donate kidneys for money. They created fake records to obtain permission
from government agencies. Mahadeva who is married to two women and had
also made them donate one of their kidneys.
He would strike a deal with doctors in private hospitals in
Bangalore, while Gopala would prepare fake documents. The contract
employee at Food & Civil Supplies Department of Magadi Srikanth and
Bangalore North Revenue Inspector Ranjan would assist Gopala in
completing his work, the police said.
Rajanna of Magadi and Manjunatha would take the victims to
hospital for surgeries. They allegedly supplied kidneys to Manipal,
Columbia Asia, Apollo, K R, Victoria, BGS and Vikram hospitals.
Police said Mahadevaiah alias Mahadeva was caught in a similar
racket in 2006-07. At that time, the case was investigated by the CID
and he is said to have been absconding after release from custody.
Gopala and Manjunatha were also wanted for earlier cases of similar
nature.
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