Int’l kidney racket busted, one held

4 hosps in Lanka, Turkey involved in illegal biz

The Banjara Hills police busted an international kidney selling racket and arrested one Dogiparthi Shanmukha Pavan Srinivas, 25, on Saturday. Police said Srinivas was directly and indirectly involved in illegal kidney transplantation operations which took place abroad.

The matter came to light when he cheated a couple of `34 lakh. The complainant, B. Bharathi, told the Banjara Hills police that her husband Nagaraj is undergoing treatment for kidney disease at a private hospital in the city.

They came in contact with Pavan at the hospital, and he assured the couple that he would be able to provide a donor and get the transplantation done through his sources in Sri Lanka or Turkey and collected the

ACCORDING TO the police, Pavan allegedly lured the poor on social media and, taking advantage of their financial situation, made them donate their kidneys for money.

money.

According to the police, Pavan allegedly lured the poor on social media and, taking advantage of their financial situation, made them donate their kidneys for money. He was collecting `30 lakh to `50 lakh per patient.

“As per preliminary investigations, the accused was involved in striking deals in 30 cases and was directly involved in nine cases in which one person died due to operation failure. A case was registered and he was detained in Sri Lanka for illegal stay.

He was deported to India in April 2018,” said A.R. Srinivas, joint commissioner of police, the incharge DCP of the West Zone police.

Police said Pavan used to work as an aircraft maintenance engineer for two years and lost money in the stock market. At one point of time, he decided to kill himself. Meanwhile, he came in contact with person through social media in

2013 and donated his kidney for which he received

`6 lakh from the recipient. With that amount he cleared all his debts. “After witnessing huge profits, he developed the contacts and resorted to this illegal business,” the police said.

The police has identified four hospitals in Sri Lanka and Turkey which perform the procedure illegally.

The Banjara Hills police booked Pavan for criminal breach of trust and cheating. Pavan has been sent to judicial custody.