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Police arrest five men in kidney racket case
Chitwan police have arrested five people for their alleged involvement in a kidney racket said to be operating from India.Chitwan police have arrested five people for their alleged involvement in a kidney racket said to be operating from India.
Durga Bahadur Darji, 41, of Panchakanya Rural Municipality-4 in Nuwakot, Bikram Pahari, 35, of Chandrapur Municipality-4 in Rautahat, Prakash Tamang of Bakaiya Rural Municiplaity-5 in Makwanpur, Deepak Limbu, 34, of Bayarban Rural Municipality in Morang and Bishal Nepali, 28, of Uttargaya Rural Municipality-3 in Rasuwa were arrested from different parts of the district on different dates, Deputy Superintendent of Police Prabhu Prasad Dhakal of District Police Office said on Sunday.
The five men could be charged under the Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act.
“We arrested these men following a complaint that a group had been luring people in remote villages into selling their kidneys by taking them to Delhi,” the DSP said.
Police filed a formal case against the suspects after one man came forward and confirmed that the five men had taken him to Delhi to harvest his kidney.
“We have found out that these kidney racketeers find prospective candidates from rural areas and make them undergo preliminary medical tests in Nepal before taking them to Delhi. The incident came to light after one such candidate escaped from Delhi and contacted us,” DSP Dhakal said.
Superintendent of Police Sushil Singh Rathore said the arrested suspects used to earn Rs 50,000 for every donor.
“These men were lured by the prospect of earning quick money. Since kidney recipients are paying up to
Rs 3.7 million for the organ in India, we suspect that these suspects are part of an international kidney harvesting racket,” SP Rathore added.
Chitwan police has asked the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police to help bust the racket