Dwarka police in Visakhapatnam have arrested Mamidi Anil Kumar, the main suspect involved in a kidney racket linked to a private hospital.
The scandal emerged on July 5 when Moola Venkata Satyanarayana Gopi filed a complaint against Dr. Vani and Anil Kumar, an agent, after his wife Sarada Lakshmi needed a kidney transplant. Gopi alleged that Anil Kumar promised to find a kidney donor for his wife in exchange for ₹27 lakh. Trusting him, Gopi paid an advance of ₹10 lakh, but Anil Kumar vanished after receiving the money without arranging the transplant.
According to the Dwarka police, Anil Kumar has been arrested and remanded to 15 days in custody. Investigations are ongoing to determine if Dr. Vani and others are involved in the case.
This marks the fourth kidney racket uncovered in Visakhapatnam since 2015. The first incident was revealed in 2015 when the Enforcement Directorate arrested several individuals, including Dr. N. Prabhakar Babu, the director of a private hospital in Ram Nagar. Namita Nayak, a woman in financial distress, agreed to donate her kidney for ₹10 lakh but received only ₹50,000.
Another scam was discovered at a private hospital in Maharanipeta, where Thambulla Pardhasaradhi from Hyderabad sold his kidney in an illegal transplant facilitated by Dr. M. Manjunath and Dr. Doddhi Prabhakar.
In 2019, a kidney racket operating from a private hospital in Pendurthi was exposed, with Narla Venkateswara Rao identified as the ringleader.
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