Kidney Transplant Fraud: Commissionerate Police To Take Accused On 2-Day Remand | OTV News
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Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police will take Himanshu Bhusan Nanda, the prime accused of the kidney transplant fraud on a two-day remand to extract extra details about the racket, knowledgeable Bhubaneswar DCP, Umashankar Das on Friday.
As per experiences, Himanshu has already duped many kidney sufferers to the tune of Rs 18 Lakh on the pretext of arranging donors. And he might be taken on remand to unearth extra such doable fraudulent transactions from unsuspecting sufferers.
Briefing reporters at the moment, DCP Das mentioned, “The accused has many cases in his name at multiple police stations in Bhubaneswar. When we came to know that he has defrauded more than Rs 18 Lakh, we decided to take him on remand as there are chances that he might have duped many more such patients.”
“Himanshu is still hiding many things and is not cooperating with police. There are many other complainants too who could not come in the open. So a remand of 2 days will give us ample time to build an iron clad case around him,” added Das.
Denying to expose any extra details about an alleged nexus between some medical personnel and the accused, Das mentioned, “It will be premature to say anything about such link as we do not know who else is involved with him. But as far as the investigation is concerned, Himanshu is the only accused in this case till now. We will be able to shed more light on this after we bring him on remand.”
It is pertinent to say right here that Himanshu was arrested from Bhubaneswar for allegedly duping lakhs of rupees from kidney sufferers on the pretext of arranging donors. The arrested youth, aged 32, occurs to be a resident of Nuapatna in Pattamundai of Kendrapara district and had been staying in Uttara space of the capital metropolis.
His fraudulent acts to the fore when some harmless victims reached the hospital with the ‘fake’ paperwork he had handed over to them promising authorized kidney transplantation.
(Edited By Suryakant Jena)
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