KIDNEY GANG WAS ACTIVE IN DELHI-NCR, PUNJAB, HARYANA, MADHYA PRADESH & GUJARAT

34 Fake Stamps, 17 mobile phones, 02 laptops, 09 SIMs, 01 luxury Car, 1,50,000/-, forged documents & files of Patients/Recipients & Donors recovered

Face2News/New Delhi

A team of ISC, Crime Branch, Chanakya Puri has busted an Inter-State illegal Kidney Transplant Racket, which was active in Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh & Gujarat and arrested 15 members of the syndicate including kingpin, transplant co-ordinator of hospitals, patients & donors. From the possession of the accused persons, lot of incriminatory material including stamps, seal of different authorities, blank papers of various hospitals & laboratories, forged paper files of patients & donors of Kidney Transplantation and other important forged ID documents have been recovered.

Secret information was received in ISC, Crime Branch about a well-organized racket, which is involved in illegal kidney transplants of Indian citizens. During the information development process and identification of victims of syndicate, one lady complainant gave a complaint against Sandeep and Vijay Kumar Kashyap @ Sumit that they had cheated her husband with Rs. 35,00,000/- on the pretext of kidney transplant.

Mr. Amit Goel, IPS, DCP Crime, said, during interrogation, it was revealed that in an organized manner accused persons first used to take job in reputed hospitals as transplant co-coordinator and then get trained/learn the process adopted by the concerned hospital for Kidney transplant.Thereafter, they used to identify the patients suffering from Kidney disease and taking treatment from different hospitals in Delhi, Faridabad, Mohali, Panchkula, Agra, Indore and Gujarat. Accused persons used to contact/arrange donors from social media and took benefit of their poor financial background and exploited them on the pretext of providing 5 to 6 lakhs rupees to give their Kidney.

Accordingly, a case in relevant sections of law was registered. Further, on 28.06.2024, Sandeep Arya and Devender both r/o Uttrakhand were arrested from a five star hotel in Goa.

NTERROGATION & MODUS OPERANDI: Mr. Amit Goel, IPS, DCP Crime, said, during interrogation, it was revealed that in an organized manner accused persons first used to take job in reputed hospitals as transplant co-coordinator and then get trained/learn the process adopted by the concerned hospital for Kidney transplant.

Thereafter, they used to identify the patients suffering from Kidney disease and taking treatment from different hospitals in Delhi, Faridabad, Mohali, Panchkula, Agra, Indore and Gujarat. Accused persons used to contact/arrange donors from social media and took benefit of their poor financial background and exploited them on the pretext of providing  5 to 6 lakhs rupees to give their Kidney.

They prepared the forged documents of patients /donors to show them close relative as this is one of the mandatory provision. In some cases, they fabricated documents and showed the donor and patient as resident of other state to get transplantation in different states hospital to avoid any doubt. Based on forged documents, they had their preliminary medical examination and arranged to pass the scrutiny of the Transplant Authorization Committee in different hospitals. So far, it has been revealed that the syndicate had succeeded in Kidney Transplant in 11 hospitals in different states.

During further investigation, at their instance/identification, 05 associates namely Punit Kumar, Md. Hanif Shaikh, Cheeka Prashanth, Tej Prakash and Rohit Khanna @ Narender were arrested from different places. Further, 05 patients, who got Kidney Transplant done and 02 Donors have been identified and legal action have been initiated against them. So far, 34 cases of illegal Kidney Transplant has been identified. Further, investigation is going on.

PROFILE OF ACCUSED PERSONS:  Sandeep Arya r/o Noida (UP)- He is the kingpin of Kidney Racket and MBA in Public Health. He worked as Transplant Co-ordinator in various hospitals in Faridabad, Delhi, Gurugram, Indore and Vadodara. He used to contact patients and arrange kidney transplant in hospitals, where he had been posted as transplant coordinator. He used to take about  35-40 Lakhs for each kidney transplant, which included hospital expense paid by patients, arrangement of donor, accommodation and other legal documentation required for surgery. He used to save 7 to 8 lakhs from each Kidney Transplant. He is previously involved in a credit card cheating case of PS Shalimar Bagh, Delhi.

Devender Jha r/o Uttrakhand- He studied upto class 10th and is brother-in-law of Sandeep Arya who provided his account to him, in which ₹ 7 Lacs were received from the husband of complainant. His role was to assist accused Sandeep Arya and to receive payments on his direction. He used to take ₹ 50,000/- for each case

Vijay Kumar Kashyap @ Sumit r/o Lucknow (UP)- He is graduate. Initially, he came in contact with accused Sandeep Arya, to give his kidney for money. Thereafter, he indulged in crime and used to work with Sandeep Arya and was getting ₹ 50,000/- for each case. His role was to groom the personality of the donors as per the lifestyle and family background of the patient/receivers and facilitating the donors prior to surgery on the direction of Sandeep.

Puneet Kumar r/o Agra (UP)- He got his hospital management degree in 2018 and thereafter, served in 07 reputed hospitals in different states. He used to prepare fake documents to prove relationship between patient and donor on the directions of Sandeep. At present, he was working as transplant coordinator in a hospital in Agra, UP. Sandeep used to pay him ₹ 50,000/- to 1 lakh for each file.

Md. Hanif Shaikh r/o Mumbai (MH)- He is a tailor by profession and after losses, he came in contact with Sandeep Arya through a Facebook page and donated his kidney for money. Thereafter, he indulged in crime and used to work of Sandeep Arya. His role was to provide patients or donor to accused Sandeep Arya in lieu of that he used to get  5 or 1 Lakhs respectively for per case.

Cheeka Prashanth r/o Hyderabad- He donated his Kidney through Sandeep Arya and after that he joined him. Sandeep saw in him as an opportunity to get access in hospitals, so he arranged training for him in Indore, MP to get a job as a Transplant Co-ordinator and finally succeed to get job on fake papers in a reputed hospital in Delhi. With his help, Sandeep got 03 Kidney Transplant. Further, they moved file for complainant’s husband with a donor showing themselves as father and daughter, but meanwhile complainant’s husband passed away. He used to take ₹ 1 Lakh per case.

Tej Prakash r/o Delhi- He got a kidney transplant for his wife from a Hospital in Mohali through Sandeep and later also provided patient to the accused Sandeep Arya. He used to take ₹ 5 Lakh per patient.

Rohit Khanna @ Narender r/o Delhi- He used to get the contact numbers of kidney donors through the social media platforms from various kidney group in which he is a member. As soon as any donor shows his willingness to give the kidney, he provided his mobile number and used to contact them. Further, he forwarded them to accused Sandeep Arya for various patients for kidney transplant. He is having 26 email IDs, numbers of social media pages and also a member of 112 kidney-treatment groups. He is the main supplier of donors to syndicate.
RECOVERY:- 34 Stamps of various officers of different states, 06 forged files of kidney patients & donors, Blank documents of various laboratories and hospitals to prepare forged documents,  Material to prepare stamps N 5, 2 Laptops containing incriminating data and record of Kidney Transplantation17 mobile phones.  09 SIM cards &  1,50,000/- recovered from the possession of accused persons , ercedes car of accused Sandeep Arya used to influence patients

Further investigation is in progress.