Kidney racket: Another accused arrested

The Uttarakhand Police today arrested Rajiv Chaudhry in a kidney transplant racket unearthed recently in the district, a day after four other accused were arrested in this connection.
Chaudhry, who ran Gangotri Charitable Hospital in Lal Tappar area, was arrested from Raiwala area of the city late last night, Superintendent Of Police (rural) Sarita Dobhal, who leads the investigating team, said.
"A total of nine persons, including the kidney transplant racket kingpin Amit Raut, have been arrested in connection with the case so far," she said.
However, four more accused, including Raut's son Akshay, are still at large, Dobhal said, adding that searches are being conducted at different places to arrest them.

"Aided by his wife Anupama, Chaudhry looked after the entire management of the hospital," she said.
The fresh racket was unearthed on September 1 in Gangotri Charitable Hospital in Lal Tappar area of rural Dehradun.

Anupama and two other accused -- Jagdish bhai and Abhishek Sharma -- were arrested from Doiwala area yesterday whereas Raut, his brother Jivan and a nurse named Sarla were arrested from a hotel in Panchkula, Haryana, on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
"Raut's driver Billu was also arrested during the same period from Doiwala area. A middleman named Javed was arrested on the day the racket was busted," she said.

Jagdish Bhai, who hails from Surat, worked as a kidney racket agent in Gujarat and the third arrested accused Sharma owns a pharmacy which supplied all medicines required to the hospital for kidney transplant.
Sharma hails from Kankhal area of Haridwar, the SP said.
Three more accused, apart from Akshay, for whom searches are still being conducted by police are Sanjay Das, Sushma Kumari who worked with Raut in the operation theatre and an agent Chandana Gudiya.
Meanwhile, the police is also gathering information on the criminal antecedents of Raut from different states and union territories.
It has been found that Raut is also wanted in several states like Gujarat and Maharashtra for running similar kidney transplant rackets.

Records of properties like bungalows and flats owned by the father-son duo in different cities all over the country are also being probed, the official said.
They are said to own a five star hotel in Mumbai, she said.