MUMBAI: Mumbai police, after busting an intercontinental kidney racket, have claimed that alleged kingpin, Suresh Prajapati, 45, and his aide Vruchantala Nizamuddin, 35, had collected at least Rs 40,00,000 from Arun Khosla, mayor of Phagwara, Punjab, to get his daughter the organ from a donor based in Andhra Pradesh. A police team was sent to New Delhi to record Khosla's statement.
A source said Prajapati and Nizamuddin connected with Khosla and the donor through social media and made arrangements for the transplant to be conducted in Cairo. Khosla has confirmed that his daughter had undergone a transplant. The accused had trafficked four patients and four donors to Cairo for transplants since May. Two other donors who travelled on tourist visas were called back by the police. The racket was busted when immigration officials at Mumbai airport caught Nizamuddin following suspicion over his frequent visits to Cairo.
An officer said, “initially, he denied any wrongdoing, but confessed after immigration officials found three passports in his possession.” He was handed over to the police and it was subsequently revealed that he was merely a carrier and worked for Prajapati. The latter was arrested in Andhra after facilitating 58 transplants in Sri Lanka since 2014.
