Case registered against 'kidney racket' operating on Facebook

An FIR was today registered by the police at Gomti Nagar police station here on a complaint of a senior IPS officer, who alleged that members of a kidney racket are using social networking site Facebook to lure people to sell their vital organs.
The case has been registered under various sections of IPC including Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 on complaint of IPS officer Amitabh Thakur that a kidney racket was being run on Facebook, police source said here.
The complaint was filed by Thakur on May 13 but FIR was not registered after which he met SSP Pravin Kumar, who ordered registration of FIR.

The 1992-batch Uttar Pradesh-cadre IPS officer, Thakur who is posted as the Inspector General of Police (Civil Defence), had alleged that a gang is contacting Facebook users to purchase their kidney and was offering Rs 3.5-4 lakh for it.
In his complaint, Thakur claimed that one of his friends from Noida had been contacted by a person on Facebook and was offered Rs 3.5 lakh for his renal organ.