Bought for Rs 2 lakh, sold for Rs 10 lakh — Haryana Police bust kidney-trafficking racket in Gurugram

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Gurugram:In a joint operation Thursday, Haryanas health department and the chief ministers flying squad a unit of the state police busted a kidney-trafficking racket allegedly being operated by a Jharkhand resident out of a guest house Babil Palace in Sector 39 of Gurugram, Haryana...

The Jharkhand resident, Mohammed Murtaza Ansari, acted as the middleman between donors and recipients, also from Bangladesh..

The FIR, at Gurugrams Sadar Police Station against Ansari and others, include charges under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, and Section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code..

The recipients told the team they had paid Rs 10 lakh for one organ.. The FIR states the donors were neither emotionally attached to the recipients nor blood relatives, but had merely given their kidneys for money..

The FIR doesnt mention the date on which the alleged transplant took place, but Shamim, a mobile repair shop owner, told the police he was brought to India nearly two months ago on a fake passport arranged by Ansari...