Gurgaon kidney scandal
The multi-billion
Chronology of events
The police raid
On 24 January 2008, police teams from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh raided a residential building and a guest house owned by Amit Kumar.[4]
According to the Gurgaon police, the scandal at a local clinic had been going on for six to seven years. The donors were lured with offerings of about
The Haryana police, under whose jurisdiction the crime happened, issued arrest warrants against Upendra Aggarwal, a general physician and an associate of Amit Kumar for his involvement in the scandal. However, at the time of the police raid, Kumar and his other accomplices escaped after the knowledge of possible arrests.[7]
The raid helped rescue five people and shifted them to a Gurgaon hospital.[4]
Aftermath of the raid
On 25 January 2008, the police detained a
The police revealed that Dr. Amit Kumar and his accomplices had performed 600 kidney transplants in the past decade.
The Indian Medical Association, arranged a probe by its three-member committee, and further requested investigation by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's higher investigation agency.[4] The Haryana police further uncovered 2 hospitals and 10 laboratories in Greater Noida and Meerut, cities nearby to New Delhi for their alleged involvement in the scandal.[4]
In the meanwhile, a Gurgaon court had issued arrest warrants for Amit Kumar and his brother, Jeevan Kumar Rawat. With growing suspicions that Kumar might have fled the country,
Arrest of Amit Kumar
On 7 February 2008, Amit Kumar was arrested in the neighboring country of
Subsequent conviction
In March 2013, a
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