Hyderabad: The Saroornagar police have arrested three more persons, including the main broker Laxman, for their role in the illegal kidney trade racket, which was exposed last month. The two others were partners of Janani Hospital, where 56 illegal transplantations had taken place before the illegal surgeries were shifted to the Alakananda Hospital.
Laxman is one of the three persons who organised the kidney racket. The other two are Purna, who is on the run, and Pavan, currently in Sri Lanka.
The trio organised approximately 60 illegal kidney organ transplantations by bringing together donors and recipients for a fee. They are suspected to have got information from nephrologists who tipped them off about patients with chronic kidney diseases.
The interrogation of Laxman is likely to reveal more information about the doctors who performed illegal transplantations, exposing the entire team that was involved in the racket.
So far, 10 people have been arrested, including Alakananda Hospital managing director Dr Guntupally Sumanth, general surgeon Dr Siddamshetty Avinash, Chennai-based chief surgeon Dr Raj Shekhar, five medical assistants and two mediators. It can be noted that he was earlier arrested in Vizag for similar cases.
Dr Raj Shekhar, who was taken into a two-day custody for Monday and Tuesday, remained tight-lipped during the questioning, police said. The police were focusing on securing more information about the illegal transplantation surgeries.
