India's elite criminal investigation agency is awaiting an order from the central government to take charge of the probe into the internationally linked kidney transplant racket busted in Gurgaon Jan 24.
The Haryana government has already sent a formal request to the centre Jan 31 to hand over the probe in the racket to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Gurgaon, adjacent to the national capital, is in the state of Haryana.
"The central government's notification is required before we begin the probe in racket. After the Haryana government's formal request, the centre will issue the notification soon," a senior CBI official said Monday.
The CBI probe in the scandal has been recommended as the investigations into the scam encompasses several states and has international dimensions, with patients coming for a kidney transplant from the US, Greece, Lebanon, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.
Amit Kumar alias Santosh Rameshwar Raut who operated the multi-million-rupee illegal kidney transplant racket from his two bungalows in Gurgaon is suspected to have escaped to Canada.
The CBI is the nodal agency in the country to deal with international crime investigation organisations, including the Interpol.
Haryana's request for red corner notices against the alleged kingpins of the scandal, Kumar and his brother Jeewan Raut, was quickly processed by the CBI and the international warrants have been secured.
Amit Kumar had allegedly masterminded around 600 "forced" kidney transplants over the past nine years.
Indo-Asian News Service
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