A kidney sale racket was busted and two persons were arrested in Ameerpet on Sunday.
Gandhi hospital nephrologist, Dr Ramesh Chada, and two of his assistants, and arrested two brokers following a sting operation. Police said that the accused were attracting poor villagers, harvesting kidneys from them and performing transplantation illegally at the Indu Superspecialty Clinic, Dr Chada’s outfit, at Karkhana in the city. Police arrested N Venkata Srinivasa Rao of Addanki in Prakasam district and his cousin E Rajender Prasad of Khairatabad near a travel agent's office in Ameerpet.
A few days ago, 26-year-old S Yadgiri of Dubbaka in Medak district approached the Punjagutta police and lodged a complaint alleging that Srinivasa Rao and Rajender lured him to sell his kidney and they even made him talk to a nephrologist, Dr Ramesh Chadha of Indu Super Speciality Clinic in Karkhana in this regard. Acting on the complaint, a special team nabbed the duo near a private travel agent's office in Ameerpet on Sunday. "The complainant said on May 3 the duo took him to Indu clinic and made him meet Dr Ramesh Chadha through his personal assistants Praveen and Prashant to discuss the kidney deal," assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Panjagutta, D Venkata Narsaiah said. Panjagutta SI K Ravi Kumar, who is investigating the case, said the nephrologist was working at Gandhi hospital. According to police, Yadgiri first met Srinivasa Rao in Ameerpet when he came to the city a month ago.
Understanding that he was in poor financial condition, Srinivas Rao made him meet his cousin Rajendra Prasad, who told him to sell off one of his kidneys. "The duo told Yadgiri that he will get Rs five lakh for his kidney and asked him to pay them Rs one lakh as commission," the SI said. To convince the victim, they took him to the nephrologist's clinic in Karkhana. However, Yadgiri got scared and leaked the information to a Telugu news channel and the racket came to light.
Based on the complaint lodged by Yadgiri, police arrested the duo on Sunday. A man-hunt has been launched to nab the nephrologist's assistants Praveen and Prashant. “The kidney transplant surgeries were going on for the five to six months. We are interrogating the brokers,” the police official said.
"We will produce them before court on Monday and file a petition seeking their custody to know the involvement of the nephrologist and the scale of the organ sale racket," the ACP said.
