Delhi Police arrested a 50-year-old doctor last week from Delhi-based Indra-prastha Apollo Hospital for her alleged involvement in kidney transplant racket across Bangladesh and
India, according to a report published by The Indian Express.
The newspaper also reports that three Bangladeshis were arrested last month in the same case. Documents in the name of the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi were also allegedly forged as part of the racket to prove there was a relationship between donor and recipient (both Bangladeshi), as required by Indian law for organ transplants.
Dr Vijaya Kumari, now under suspension, was the lone doctor working with the gang and had performed around 15 to 16 transplants from 2021-23 in Noida-based private Yatharth Hospital. Kumari, a senior consultant and a kidney transplant surgeon, joined Apollo Hospital as a junior doctor 15 years ago.
In the alleged racket, records show, patients from Bangladesh were lured by a network of middlemen, Kumari, and their associates for organ transplantation in major hospitals in the Indian capital.
The Bangladeshis involved in the racket were identified as Rasel, 29, along with associates Md Sumon Mia.
