By IANS
New Delhi : Amit Kumar, the mastermind of the illegal kidney transplant racket, was likely to be brought to the Indian capital Saturday night from Nepal where he was arrested Thursday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief said.
“Amit Kumar is likely to be brought to India tonight (Saturday),” CBI Director Vijay Shanker told IANS.
CBI sources said its two inspectors were presently completing formalities in Nepal.
Sources in the external affairs ministry said formalities of handing Amit Kumar over to Indian authorities was on and they were expecting him here possibly Saturday night.
Amit Kumar, alias Santosh Rameshwar Raut, the man allegedly behind 600 illegal kidney transplants, was arrested Thursday evening from a hotel near the India-Nepal border and taken to Kathmandu early Friday for interrogation.
Amit Kumar and his associates allegedly obtained kidneys illegally, often through force, from poor people and then transplanted them to needy patients who could pay their exorbitant charges.
The ring, which served clients from Britain, the US, Greece, Lebanon, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, was busted Jan 24 in Gurgaon, a booming suburban town of Delhi.