The youth said he recently started swallowing metal objects
The court accepted the plea of Enforcement Directorate for issuance of Letters Rogatory to authorities in the two countries as investigations allegedly revealed that Dr Amit, a quack, had made offshore investments in properties and banks.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is getting in touch with Greek authorities to ascertain the arrest of three women, including a doctor, for allegedly being involved in the multi-crore kidney racket in which Dr Amit Kumar, the key accused, has been taken into custody by it. The agency, which is probing the case, will approach the authorities through the external affairs ministry and Interpol to get facts and evidence related to it, CBI sources said on Thursday.
They will be produced in the court of metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai on Monday. The police team procured production warrants of the accused for taking them to Mumbai. However, it may not be possible for the police to produce the two in the Mumbai court on Monday.
Sources in the Directorate said on Wednesday that a notice will be served to Kumar after a decision was taken to lodge a complaint under Foreign Exchange Management Act against him after the CBI handed over some documents showing investments made by the doctor abroad, especially Canada.
A technician, who worked for kidney thugs involved in the multi-crore organ transplant racket, on Monday recorded his statement before a Delhi court following the CBI's claim that he wanted to admit his guilt in the case.
A Nepalese minister indicated that it may take weeks or months for the tainted doctor to be sent to India.
A front-page banner line report in Sunday's Toronto Star reveals that Kumar's wife Poonam Ameet, 28, and two sons aged 5 and 4, live on Pali Drive in Brampton. The report also reveals that Kumar bought this home last year for $610,000. A number of neighbours are acquainted with Kumar, as he visited Canada during the Christmas holidays. Kumar, who drove a $65,000 rental Lexus SUV 350 during his stay here, told people that he was a cardiovascular surgeon.
The Haryana police on Sunday said that they did not rule out the possibility of the alleged mastermind of the kidney racket, Dr Amit Kumar, having fled the country, taking advantage of the network of some of his foreign clients.
Sources said the CBI has asked for 15 days of remand for the man dubbed as 'Dr Horror', but the details of the investigations would be known after a press handout is issued by the official spokesperson.
Forty-year-old Kumar, who was arrested from a jungle resort in Chitwan in southern Nepal on Thursday, was handed over to a two-member CBI team on Saturday evening.
Dr Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the multi-crore rupees kidney transplant racket in India, has been arrested in Nepal, the Himalayan Times newspaper reported on Thursday.
Kidney scouts roam around the labour markets in the poorest districts of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Delhi in search of potential donors.
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