GUWAHATI: CEO of Delhi’s Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute (PSRI), Dr Deepak Shukla (69), was arrested by the UP police on June 9 for his alleged involvment in an international kidney racket that was busted in Kanpur on 17 February.
Doctors from Fortis hospital are also found to be a part of the racket.
According to a report by Times of India, Shukla was taken into custody by a special investigating team of Kanpur police on Friday, June 7.
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Shukla was arrested in charges of cheating, wrongful confinement, trafficking, criminal conspiracy, and under sections of Transplantation of Human Organs, said Kanpur police chief Anant Kumar.
The accused removed the kidney of at least 12 donors in exchange for a huge amount of money extracted by the recipients family.
The racket’s prime accuse, Dr Ketan Kaushik, a private practitioner, who is still on the run, allegedly brings patients from places like Turkey, UAE, and other regions in the Middle East for organ transplantation.
It should be mentioned that Rs 2 to 3 lakhs were paid to the donors while Rs 70 to 80 lakhs were charged by the recipients for each transplant.
