Middlemen get info about potential recipients from chemist

The arrested middlemen in the alleged kidney racket used to find out about potential recipients through chemist shops in hospitals and diagnostic centres, police said today.
The Delhi Police had arrested four persons, including a woman, for their alleged involvement in the illegal sale and purchase of kidneys.
The Crime Branch officials probing the inter-state racket have also sent teams to Hyderabad, Rajasthan and some other cities to find out about the other persons who are involved in the racket, said a senior police officer.
The racket was busted after an MBA student, along with a news channel reporter, contacted the Crime Branch officials in April. He had posed as a donor to dig deep into the racket and through spy devices provided to him by the Crime Branch recorded the entire process from his meetings with the middlemen, to his screening process at the hospital.

The man underwent a screening test in front of a medical team at a private hospital that had cleared his interview despite him giving some wrong answers.
The doctors, who were part of the panel, that had conducted the screening of the donor, are also being questioned.

The four accused -- Jayant Sahoo, Sulekha Panda, Anoj Patra and Birju Paswan -- are currently in police custody and are being interrogated.
It has been found that they have their own 'persons' working at chemist shops in hospitals and diagnostic centres in Delhi and some other cities, said a senior police officer.

These persons talk to those patients who are buying medicines for kidney ailments.
After finding out that they are looking for donors, they would put them in touch with the middlemen who would gauge their financial strength and then make them meet potential donors.
The middlemen gave the complainant a separate identity with fake Id cards, so that he could pass off as a member of the family of the recipient.
The middlemen targeted helpless families, who were looking for kidney donors.
They were induced and charged huge amount of money with the promise to complete necessary documentation and formalities for the smooth transplant operation.