Kidney kingpin brought back to India
According to TV reports, the prime accused in the kidney transplant racket, who had been nabbed from a jungle lodge in Nepal, has been brought back to India from Kathmandu.
By INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK |
NEW DELHI: According to TV reports, the prime accused in the kidney transplant racket, who had been nabbed from a jungle lodge in Nepal, has been brought back to India from Kathmandu.
CBI officials accompanied Dr Amit Kumar, accused of running India's biggest kidney racket, on his way to India, according to Times Now. This comes shortly after Nepal officials handed him over to India. Kumar will straight be taken away for interrogation.
On Friday, CBI took up the matter of Kumar's handing over with Nepalese government through the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said.
Kumar was arrested in Nepal by the local police from a jungle resort at Chitwan near the Indian border on Thursday after a two-week international hunt.
Kumar allegedly offered bribe to the tune of Rs 20 lakh to Nepal police team which arrested him. "I will give you Rs 20 lakh if you let me go," Kumar was quoted as saying by hotel employee Maheshwar Regmi. Police had seized a bank draft for Rs 936,000, and Euros 145,000 and $18,900 in cash from him during his arrest.
CBI officials accompanied Dr Amit Kumar, accused of running India's biggest kidney racket, on his way to India, according to Times Now. This comes shortly after Nepal officials handed him over to India. Kumar will straight be taken away for interrogation.
On Friday, CBI took up the matter of Kumar's handing over with Nepalese government through the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said.
Kumar was arrested in Nepal by the local police from a jungle resort at Chitwan near the Indian border on Thursday after a two-week international hunt.
Kumar allegedly offered bribe to the tune of Rs 20 lakh to Nepal police team which arrested him. "I will give you Rs 20 lakh if you let me go," Kumar was quoted as saying by hotel employee Maheshwar Regmi. Police had seized a bank draft for Rs 936,000, and Euros 145,000 and $18,900 in cash from him during his arrest.
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