Kanpur: Police have filed a nearly 1,000-page chargesheet within the statutory 90-day period in the high-profile illegal kidney transplant racket uncovered in Kanpur. The chargesheet names 14 accused persons and lists 40 witnesses to support the prosecution’s case. However, five accused remain absconding, and police teams are continuing search operations to apprehend them.
Chargesheet Names 14 Accused
Investigators have identified kidney donor Ayush and kidney recipient Parul Tomar as key witnesses in the case. The witness list also includes hospital employees, former organ donors and recipients, medical professionals and other individuals connected with the investigation.
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According to officials, the Enforcement Directorate has also initiated a parallel investigation after alleged illegal financial transactions worth several crores of rupees surfaced during the probe. Records are being shared with the agency.
The chargesheet names Dr Preeti Ahuja, proprietor of Ahuja Hospital, her husband Dr Surjeet Singh Ahuja, Aarohi Hospital operator Rajesh Kumar, Medlife Hospital operator Ram Prakash, Priya Hospital operator Narendra Singh, alleged middleman Shivam Agrawal, Ghaziabad-based OT Manager Rajesh Kumar, Hapur resident and OT in-charge Kuldeep Singh Raghav, Baghpat resident Parvez Saifi, Ghaziabad resident Rohit Tiwari, Muddassir Ali Siddiqui and others.
Electronic Evidence Central
Police have relied extensively on scientific and digital evidence in the chargesheet. The prosecution has submitted site maps, call detail records, CCTV footage, bank transaction records, telephone recordings, WhatsApp chats, digital documents and other electronic evidence before the court.
Investigators believe these materials establish the alleged conspiracy and the respective roles of the accused.
Apart from Ayush and Parul Tomar, the witness list includes Parul’s husband Vikas, her brother Divyansh Tomar, three doctors from Halat Hospital, two doctors from a Community Health Centre, an Additional Chief Medical Officer, around 20 police sub-inspectors and several doctors from Lucknow.
ED Probes Financial Trail
During the investigation, some accused allegedly claimed that illegal kidney transplants had also been carried out at Ramashiv Hospital in Swaroop Nagar. However, police said no independent or direct evidence linking the hospital to the alleged racket was found. As neither a donor nor a recipient could be connected to the hospital, it was not included in the chargesheet.
Investigators have also included a video allegedly recovered from the mobile phone of accused Shivam Agrawal. The video purportedly shows some of the accused lying on bundles of ₹500 currency notes. Police had earlier recovered ₹10 lakh in cash from accused Parvez Saifi.
The case came to light after Muzaffarnagar resident Parul Tomar allegedly underwent an illegal kidney transplant at Ahuja Hospital in Keshavpuram, Kanpur, on March 29. During the investigation, police alleged that Ayush, a student from Begusarai in Bihar, had donated his kidney as part of the illegal operation.
Police said efforts are continuing to arrest the remaining absconding accused. Further investigation into financial transactions, electronic evidence and the alleged wider network is underway.
