Kidney kingpin Amit Kumar sent to a month's judicial custody
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the multi-crore kidney transplant racket, was today sent to a month's judicial custody till March 26 next by a court in Jaipur.
By PTI |
JAIPUR: Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the multi-crore kidney transplant racket, was today sent to a month's judicial custody till March 26 next by a court here.
Additional District Judge Phool Chand Jhajharia ordered Amit's judicial custody after he was brought from Ambala and produced in the court by police which had booked him in 1995, SHO of Sodala Raghuraj Singh Shekhawat told PTI here.
Amit was immediately sent to the central jail in Jaipur, Shekhawat said.
Jaipur police had registered a case against Kumar and others in 1995 accusing them removing a kidney of a man hailing from Bodhala villlage in Rajasthan.
On February 8, a case was registered against Kumar and others by CBI relating to sections 420 (cheating), 342 (illegal confinement), 326 (causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and different sections of Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994.
Kumar was arrested in Nepal earlier this month and brought to India, almost a month after the racket came to light on January 24.
Additional District Judge Phool Chand Jhajharia ordered Amit's judicial custody after he was brought from Ambala and produced in the court by police which had booked him in 1995, SHO of Sodala Raghuraj Singh Shekhawat told PTI here.
Amit was immediately sent to the central jail in Jaipur, Shekhawat said.
Jaipur police had registered a case against Kumar and others in 1995 accusing them removing a kidney of a man hailing from Bodhala villlage in Rajasthan.
On February 8, a case was registered against Kumar and others by CBI relating to sections 420 (cheating), 342 (illegal confinement), 326 (causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and different sections of Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994.
Kumar was arrested in Nepal earlier this month and brought to India, almost a month after the racket came to light on January 24.
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