Like a Bollywood movie drama, the key accused of multi-million kidney racket case, Dr Amit Kumar alias Santosh Rameshwar Raut, has been presented before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain at his Gulabi Bagh residence on Sunday after his Saturday’s late night deportation from Nepal to India.
The Chief magistrate has sent him to the jail and allowed CBI to produce him before the special CBI court in Ambala on the request of the investigating agency on February 22.
The media persons, who turned up in huge numbers outside the Tees Hazari court premises, had to wait too long after the CBI has spread this rumor in the public and media to maintain secrecy about him and to save accused from media scrutiny.
According to law, the police authorities have to produce the accused before the court within the 24 hours of his/her detention and CBI has taken the custody of Dr. Amit after he was handed over by Nepal Police on Saturday.
He was brought in India on late Saturday night and after that CBI had kept him in its custody for customary questioning before presenting him in the court of law.
Due to the off day of the court on Sunday, the investigating authorities had announced that ‘Dr horror’ (as he had gained this name after the unveiling of scam) will be presented before the duty court magistrate at Tees Hazari.
Whereas the police has presented him before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain’s house to escape him from media attention and public’s fury, who surrounded the court’s premise.
However, Sanjeev’s house was also tight packed with the security persons and none was allowed to go near the house till the half an hour hearing came to close. After the completion the hearing, the accused was taken back in a different car from the one he was arrived at the Magistrate’s residence.
The judge also admired the CBI’s plan to evade the accused from the media and victims of racket, even as granting imprisonment of kidney kingpin till Feb 22, the next schedule date of his hearing.
On the hearing, the investigating agency told the magistrate that agency would try to spot all the tainted persons be it a donor receiver or broker of the kidney including all medical and Para-medical staff which was indulged in this malpractice.
CBI has booked Amit under the ‘Transplantation of Human Organs Act’ under which he might face a jail term of maximum 10 years’. Besides this, he was also charged under various serious Sections of the IPC comprising Sections 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapon), section 420 (cheating), section 342 (wrongful confinement), 20-B (criminal conspiracy) and many more.
However, Amit Kumar denied in the court that he had committed any crime. He also denied from the charges of being ‘unskilled doctor’ as against agency’s estimation that he is only an ayurveda diploma holder and not a surgeon having the basic MBBS degree.
CBI also believes that after Amit’s interrogation, Police will surely come to know the exact location of his brother Jeevan’s hide-out. Agency also thinks that Jeevan may still be hidden somewhere in Nepal. There will be lot of chances to unmask some white-collar national and international faces of the globe in this case.
The wire of this crime may even link to Canada, US, European nations including some African and Asian nations too. A worldwide web network of illegal kidney trading is functioning across the globe, as Interpol and CBI believe on basis of some clues.
Dr. Upendra, another accused of this case who has been behind the bar under the charges of ‘being an active member of this world-wide kidney racket’ has revealed some surprising facts about the main accused.
He revealed that Dr Amit had wide range high-profile connections starting from Underworld, Bollywood to top politicians and bureaucrats of the country, according to sources.
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