Kidney sale racket: two more donors arrested in Hyderabad

Two more donors who allegedly sold their kidneys in Colombo were arrested by the Nalgonda police from Hyderabad today, police said. N Sivaraj Goud, an unemployed youth and Mohd Wasimuddin, a car driver, both residents of Hyderabad, were among the 15 persons who were "trafficked" by K Suresh, a middleman, to Colombo last year where they sold their kidneys for Rs 5 lakh each, DSP Sudhakar of Nalgonda police said. Suresh earned Rs 50,000 per kidney, he added. The Nalgonda district police in Telangana on January 6 claimed to have busted an international kidney sale racket with the arrest of four persons -- Suresh and three donors. Suresh, a hotel management student, sold his own kidney in December 2014; the procedure was carried out at a hospital in Colombo. He then allegedly became a middleman in the racket. He got the potential donors tested in Gujarat, and took them to hospitals in Colombo where transplants were carried out, Nalgonda SP Vikram Jeet Duggal had earlier said. All the accused have been booked under relevant sections of IPC and the AP Transplantation of Human Organs Act.