Cops mull polygraph test on kidney racket accused

  • | Thursday | 21st February, 2019

Investigations are still underway in this regard.” Also, the accused confessed that as there is no issue of visa and passport in Nepal, besides going by the financial situation particularly since the devastating earthquake, which has left many poor, they used to target donors from there,” said the police official.SSP Anant Deo said, “Further investigations, wherein police have procured vital details from their mobile phones, revealed that two accused — T Rajkumar Rao and Gaurav Mishra — of the six arrested were in touch with some Nepali nationals, who used to trap poor Nepali people and send them to India for kidney transplant. Kanpur: The police are likely to conduct lie detector tests on the arrested agents and donors involved connin the inter-state kidney transplant racket that was busted in the city on Sunday.Police sources said that the tests would corroborate the statements made by the accused and the donors during interrogation.“As the matter is sensitive, if required a lie detector test would be conducted on the arrested kidney agents and donors,” said SP South Raveena Tyagi, adding that three separate teams have been roped in to arrest the main suspect, Dr Ketan Kaushik, who is on the run.Going by further findings, the police, meanwhile collected vital inputs from the mobile phones of T Rajkumar Rao and Gaurav Mishra, two among the six arrested members of the racket.Apart from India, they used to target poor gullible Nepali nationals, whom they took into confidence with fake promises before extracting their kidneys in India, said a police official privy to the investigations.“Going by the details procured from the social networking sites in their mobile phones, the accused were in constant touch with some Nepali nationals, who used to trap extremely poor people for donating their kidney in Nepal.

Kanpur: The police are likely to conduct lie detector tests on the arrested agents and donors involved connin the inter-state kidney transplant racket that was busted in the city on Sunday.Police sources said that the tests would corroborate the statements made by the accused and the donors during interrogation.“As the matter is sensitive, if required a lie detector test would be conducted on the arrested kidney agents and donors,” said SP South Raveena Tyagi, adding that three separate teams have been roped in to arrest the main suspect, Dr Ketan Kaushik, who is on the run.Going by further findings, the police, meanwhile collected vital inputs from the mobile phones of T Rajkumar Rao and Gaurav Mishra, two among the six arrested members of the racket.Apart from India, they used to target poor gullible Nepali nationals, whom they took into confidence with fake promises before extracting their kidneys in India, said a police official privy to the investigations.“Going by the details procured from the social networking sites in their mobile phones, the accused were in constant touch with some Nepali nationals, who used to trap extremely poor people for donating their kidney in Nepal. Also, the accused confessed that as there is no issue of visa and passport in Nepal, besides going by the financial situation particularly since the devastating earthquake, which has left many poor, they used to target donors from there,” said the police official.SSP Anant Deo said, “Further investigations, wherein police have procured vital details from their mobile phones, revealed that two accused — T Rajkumar Rao and Gaurav Mishra — of the six arrested were in touch with some Nepali nationals, who used to trap poor Nepali people and send them to India for kidney transplant. Investigations are still underway in this regard.”

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