The man at the centre of India’s most notorious kidney-transplant racket
AS SOON AS PANKAJ SHARMA saw five passengers in a cab, one of whom was on a saline drip, he had a hunch about what was happening. A constable at the Ranipur police station in Haridwar district, Sharma had overheard a conversation about some “illegal going-ons” at a nearby hospital when he had stopped by a roadside teashop the previous month. His team from the Uttarakhand police had then traced these rumours to the Century Gangotri Hospital in Mazri Grant, a village 30 kilometres from the state capital, Dehradun.
Late into the night of 10 September 2018, as buses and lorries zipped past them on the Dehradun–Delhi highway, Sharma and six other police offers frisked the five passengers. Two of the passengers had six-inch surgical scars above their waists. These seemed to be marks of a recent kidney transplant, but they would not say. Finally, as the police detained them, one of the passengers started crying and pleading that the police let them go. “We haven’t even been paid yet,” he said.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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