The Taxila police claimed to have busted a six-member gang allegedly involved in depriving people of their kidneys and selling these kidneys to other patients at a high price.
According to police sources, a police party arrested six people, including a doctor and nurse, red-handed during a raid.
Acting on a tip-off, a police party led by station house officer Sub Inspector SarmadIlyas along with PHOTA staff raided a house and found an operation of kidney transplant was carried out. The police arrested six persons red-handed including notorious transplant expert Dr FawadMumtaz, nurse Sobia, paramedical staff MuhamadHusnain and Muhammad Shareef.
As many as nine other facilitators managed to escape from the scene successfully.
Sources said that a case was registered against the accused under the transplantation of human organs and tissues act 2010 and launched further investigation. Police sources said that the donor and receiver were shifted to Rawalpindi hospital. Meanwhile, a man who brutally killed a girl and chopped her body into dozens of pieces was nabbed by Wah Cantonment police after a week.
Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Taxila circle) ASP ZaniabAyubsaid the victim 25-year-old Hina Akbar went missing under mysterious circumstances on March 15.
She said that later found body parts sliced in the pieces packed in plastic bags near Rawalpindi. She said that police through technical and digital traced the suspect identified as Tipu Meer who during interrogation confessed to the murder of the girl. The ASP while quoting the suspect about the reasons behind the murder said that the girl was blackmailing her to marry her or face consequences so he has no choice but to get rid of her in such a way that nobody could find any clue about her death.