Amit on police remand; brother to be produced today

A local court has remanded organ transplant racket prime accused Amit Kumar to five days in police custody for questioning in connection with removing a man's kidney in a village in 1995. Co-accused K K Aggarwal was meanwhile sent to jail till 7th March by a special CBI court in Ambala on the expiry of the agency's remand. Amit Kumar's brother Jeevan will be produced in the Ambala court on Friday. Amit Kumar, who was brought from Ambala on Monday, was produced in Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Jagmohan Aggarwal's court which sent him on five days' police remand. He was on Monday presented before Additional Sessions Judge Phool Chand Jhajharia by a police team and remanded in judicial custody, Ghodala police station Circle Officer Rajesh Puri said. A case was registered against Amit Kumar and others at the police station in 1995 after a man from Bodhala village in the area accused them of forcibly removing one of his kidneys. Three other accused in the multicrore rupee racket -Surz, his servant Jagdish and an agent Gayashddin lodged in Tihar jail will be taken to Ambala on 7th March by the CBI on production warrants, agency sources said. The Ambala court has fixed 5th March for its next hearing. A defence counsel filed an application seeking permission for Amit Kumar to have telephonic conversations with his wife in Canada and a bail petition for Manoj, another accused. Two other accused, Upender and lab technician Vinod Kumar - are already in the judicial custody till 7th March. Aggarwal confessed to interrogators that he administrated anesthesia in over 100 kidney transplant operations and was given Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 per case, sources said. He also told them that migrant labourers whose kidneys were removed were paid around Rs 50,000 each and most of the surgeries were performed by Amit Kumar. Amit Kumar had agents in various countries who remained in touch with him on mobile phone and a large number of foreigners received kidney transplants amd paid handsomely for them, the sources added.

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