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CBI quizzes kidney racket mastermind
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday intensified kidney transplant racket mastermind Amit Kumar's interrogation after getting his custody till February 22.
- IANS
- Published: 00:21 February 11, 2008
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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday intensified kidney transplant racket mastermind Amit Kumar's interrogation after getting his custody till February 22.
"We are interrogating Amit Kumar and it is too early to describe his role in the racket. Our teams are on the lookout for the absconders in the case," CBI spokesman G. Mohanty said.
"We are contemplating to question the key accused [people] in the custody of the Gurgaon and Moradabad police. Soon we will seek production warrant from them," Mohanty added.
Following the Uttar Pra-desh government's late on Saturday announcement to hand over the probe into the racket to the CBI, Assistant Superintendent of Moradabad Police Manzil Saini reached the agency headquarters yesterday to share the information about the case.
Earlier, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjiv Jain sent Amit Kumar alias Santosh Rameshwar Raut to CBI custody till February 22.
Thorough investigation
The CBI sought the custody of the 43-year-old ayurvedic doctor, whom the Nepal Government handed over to India on Saturday evening, to conduct "thorough investigation" into the racket involving about 600 illegal kidney transplants.
In the hearing that lasted for about half an hour, the CBI contended that Amit Kumar's interrogation would reveal the trail of millions of rupees involved in the decade-old racket.
On February 22 Amit Kumar would be produced before CBI''s Special Court in Ambala in Punjab.
Dubbed as "Dr Horror", Amit Kumar was brought at the magistrate's residence around 1.30pm. CBI sources said the area around the magistrate's residence at Gulabi Bagh in north Delhi was cordoned off and no one was allowed within a 100-metre range.
The media was kept guessing about Amit Kumar's movements as the CBI made every effort to maintain secrecy.
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