Kanpur: OT manager Mudassar Ali Siddiqui, who was absconding and carried a reward of Rs 25,000, surrendered before the ACJM-VI Court in Kanpur on Thursday in the illegal kidney transplant case. The court remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody.Police have already arrested 10 accused in the kidney racket. Siddiqui is popularly known as Doctor Ali and his name is also recorded in police files.DCP West SM Qasim Abidi said the accused, already jailed in the case, confessed that Siddiqui used to perform the surgeries. Several police teams searched for him in the Delhi-NCR region. Teams also went to a flat in Uttam Nagar, Delhi, to apprehend him, where his wife confirmed that Siddiqui was an OT manager.In the kidney transplant case at Ahuja Hospital in Keshavpuram and Medilife Hospital in Masawanpur, Dr Surjit Singh Ahuja, Dr Preeti Ahuja, Shivam Aggarwal, Rajesh Kumar, Ram Prakash Kushwaha, Narendra Singh, Rohit Tiwari, Parvez Saifi, Kuldeep Singh Raghav, and Narendra Tomar have already been sent to jail. Police had announced a reward of Rs 25,000 each for Rohit Tiwari, Siddiqui and Dr Afzal.In a breakthrough in the investigation into the illegal kidney transplant racket, Kanpur police had on Monday arrested a Class XII passout, Rohit Tiwari, for posing as a doctor and managing 30 surgeries. Tiwari, who had a bounty of Rs 25,000 on his arrest, had been hopping between Goa, Kathmandu, Manali and Shimla to evade arrest since the racked was busted on Mar 31.Police said the syndicate was exposed after teams raided Ahuja Hospital in Maswanpur on a tip-off and found illegal kidney transplants being carried out at various city hospitals. The racket’s connections extended beyond Kanpur to Lucknow, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Nepal, with the accused using Telegram to lure poor people to sell kidneys for Rs 5-10 lakh and selling them to wealthy patients for Rs 60 lakh-1 crore.After the Mar 31 raid, police raided Priya Hospital in Panki Kalyanpur, where a woman underwent a transplant. At Medlife Hospital in Awas Vikas Kalyanpur, a student from Begusarai in Bihar was found admitted. His kidney was donated to the woman admitted to Priya Hospital.
