The investigation launched after a kidney racket was busted with the arrest of broker Girish Soni is now likely to be extended to some other states. Special Operations Group (SOG) officials of the Nadiad police told Newsline that considering Sonis past,there are all chances that the main accused in the case,Raju Padamsali,had got in touch with donors from other states. Soni was earlier arrested by the Ujjain police as also in Nadiad and Ahmedabad for his involvement in an illegal kidney transplantation racket. He is basically a goldsmith from Rajkot. He got settled in Nadiad after his involvement in the kidney racket. Even his son,Mayank,was arrested for helping him in the crime, said SOG Inspector P B Rojiya. He further said that Soni had introduced one Padamsali to this illegal trade. When Padamsali sold his kidney by forging the documents,he earned Rs 90,000 and it was Soni who had helped him. After that,both of them worked together. We have been given four days to interrogate Soni. We are trying to extract information as to how he helped Padamsali, he added. Sources in the SOG said they always suspected that Padamsalis main target (donors) would be from states other than Gujarat. He said that after the first kidney racket was busted in 2007,hospitals,doctors and the government authorities had become alert. Several rules were introduced and even the hospitals had started having their own verification system of both the donors and the receivers. Even in case of a sister donating kidney to her brother would be verified thoroughly. For the same reasons,Padamsali most probably had targeted donors from other states. We might send a team outside Gujarat for further probe, said an official requesting anonymity.
