By

Siranjani Kumari

Eight Indians including two brokers allegedly involved in a kidney racket involving Indians and Sri Lankans were ordered to be detained by Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday for questioning at the Mirihana Detention Centre.

The Colombo Crime Division investigating the alleged kidney racket nabbed six Indians for overstaying their visa, from an apartment at Wellawatta yesterday.

Investigators later arrested two brokers allegedly involved in the racket from a housing scheme at Pamankada on information given by the six Indians.

Court also sought a full report from the Colombo Judicial Medical Officer to ascertain whether other organs of the suspects were also removed.

The Colombo Crime Division informed court that two Indians allegedly involved in the kidney racket did not have visa, although they had passports.

Investigators told court that five out of six Indians told the police that their kidneys were removed. They had scars on their stomachs.

The Indians told police that a kidney can be donated to a close relative under Indian law and they arrived in Sri Lanka to sell their kidneys.

They told police that they were paid Indian Rs. 5 lakhs for a kidney while the brokers take back Rs. 1.2 lakhs as their charges.

Courtesy:Daily News