Gurugram: The Gurugram police arrested five Bangladeshi nationals on Saturday in connection with a commercial organ transplant business involving kidneys. The group comprised three recipients and two donors, all from Bangladesh. The scheme’s leader, Mohammed Murtaza Ansari, a Jharkhand native, remains at large.
“We have detained all five suspects. After appearing in city court today, they were placed in judicial custody,” said Arjun Dhundhara, SHO of Sadar police station.
The operation was revealed following a raid at a hotel in Gurugram Sector-39, where a Bangladeshi individual was found to have recently undergone a kidney removal procedure at a Jaipur hospital under questionable financial circumstances.
Police reported that the donors received Rs.2 lakh each for the kidney transplants. Following the procedure, the gang would reportedly house both the recipient and donor in a guest house in Gurugram. The recently detained five donors and recipients were residing in the guest house after completing kidney transplant surgeries.
The apprehended kidney recipients are Kobir MD Ahasanul (31), Nurul Islam (56), and Mahmud Syed Akb (25). The detained donors are Shamim Mehndi Hasan (34) and Hossain MD Azad (30).
This arrest follows 10 days after authorities exposed an organ transplant scheme spanning Haryana and Rajasthan. Earlier, on April 4, Gurugram Police, alongside a team from the CM flying squad and district health department, dismantled a gang involved in paid kidney transplants at two private hospitals in Jaipur.
