The main accused in the Army Research and Referral Hospital illegal kidney transplant racket, Sanjay Singh, was today sent to police custody for two days for interrogation on other links of what is believed to be a widely-established network. Singh, arrested in Patna and brought here on transit remand, was produced in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Vikash Dhull today. The police was after him since the time a complaint regarding the racket was filed with the New Delhi district police. Complainant Kishore Kumar, a patient, had arrived in Delhi and had been befriended by Rakesh, one of the accused, and taken to the R and R Hospital for treatment in 2004. But the complainant was allegedly sedated by the doctors.The matter would have ended there had Kishore not returned to Bihar and consulted a doctor regarding abdominal pain. Scans revealed a missing kidney. Returning to Delhi, the patient had filed a complaint at Parliament Street PS under New Delhi district.Investigations revealed that one of the patient’s kidneys had been transplanted to the wife of an Armyman, also admitted at the hospital. Eventually, three of the accused, including Mukesh and Rakesh, were arrested, but Sanjay Singh had been on the run. Interrogation of the accused had led to the discovery of a large and ‘‘well-organised’’ racket in illegally transplanted organs, in which Sanjay Singh alias Sanjay ‘‘Bihari’’ was the key accused. Two other accused in the case, both Army R and R Hospital employees, Rajpal and Suraj Prakash, had been the subject of an internal Army inquiry and are yet to be arrested.
