Led by an MBA grad, how Delhi cops unravelled an illegal kidney racket that spanned five states
Since the beginning of the year, the Delhi Police say they had been tracking an eight-member gang running an illegal kidney transplant racket that spanned five states — Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh — for six years. With some gang members working from hospitals, police say, they had the perfect ruse to identify possible donors as well as recipients and bring them together, albeit illicitly. When the Inter-State Cell of the Crime Branch, including investigating officer Inspector Pawan, finally busted the racket in June, police say they were surprised to find the mastermind was no criminal with a track record, but an MBA graduate, who briefly studied law, and had respectable jobs as a kidney transplant coordinator at many hospitals. This man, Sandeep Arya, 39, allegedly facilitated 34 illegal kidney transplants amounting to Rs 10 crore, say police. It was the wife of a ‘client’ in line to receive a kidney transplant from Arya, who lodged a complaint against him and co-accused Vijay Kumar Kashyap aka Sumit, that gave police their major breakthrough …