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Amit Kumar to be with CBI till Feb 22

By IANS

New Delhi : Amit Kumar, the alleged mastermind of the kidney transplant racket arrested in Nepal, will be in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till Feb 22, a court ruled Sunday.`

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjiv Jain said here that the next hearing in the case would take place when Amit Kumar’s custodial remand ends.

Amit Kumar, the man allegedly behind 600 illegal kidney transplants, was taken from the CBI headquarters to the magistrate’s residence at about 1.30 p.m.

He was brought to India Saturday after his dramatic arrest from a hotel near the India-Nepal border two days earlier.