Kidney scamsters still roaming free
July 31, 2014 08:43 am
Three
months after the death of Hyderabadi Dinesh Maroo, who was taken to Lanka for
kidney transplant surgery by racketeers, his family is still awaiting justice.
Though the police had arrested three agents from Hyderabad, the main
racketeers, including the Lankan doctor, are still free.
Despite
approaching the police, the Indian High Commission in Colombo, and the PMO
Maroo’s family has not got the postmortem report. Police says that the case is
almost closed as the Indian High Commission has not responded.
Dinesh
Maroo, 26, died in Lanka on March 30. The police said he died after drinking
beer. Police took the testimony of three kidney agents and said that Dinesh
went to the beach a day before his surgery, and died after vomiting. They also
confirmed that his kidney was not removed. Dinesh’s brother Ganesh Maroo asks
how the police can confirm the cause of death without getting the postmortem
report.
“We
have been approaching different authorities to get the report. I sent letters
to the PM, external affairs minister, and the Indian High Commission in
Colombo. It’s three months now, no response so far,” a distressed Ganesh said.
City
police officials could not proceed further as the kingpins are based in Lanka.
Senior cops pointed out the complications in the case and said the Indian High
Commission or Interpol has to help to arrest the racketeers.
The
police probe showed that a Lankan named ‘Monik’ organised the kidney trade from
India, and brought as many as 21 people from the country to Colombo for transplant
surgery in the beginning of this year. The doctor sold kidneys for Rs 30 to Rs
50 lakh each to hospitals in Lanka, but gave only Rs 5 to 15 lakh to the
victims, Deccan Chronicle reports.