Police arrest suspect in illegal transplant case

Victim lured by acquaintances on pretext of whitewashing job

LAHORE:

A member of a gang involved in illegal organ transplant has been arrested by Gulshan-e-Iqbal police.

According to investigators, the arrested suspect, Mohammed Nadeem, along with his accomplice Shoib Talib, lured the victims, mostly manual labourers, by promising to pay them Rs500,000.

Iqbal Town SP Akhlaq Ullah Tarar told the media said that the suspects took the victims to a doctor, Zafar, who illegally transplanted livers and paid the money to them.

A whitewasher, Saleem Maseeh, had complained to Gulshan-e-Iqbal police that he was standing in the Karim Block the suspects, Nadeem, a resident of Kot Radha Kishan, and Shoib, of Raiwind, stooped their car near him.

The complainant stated that the suspects, who were his acquaintances, asked him to go with them for whitewashing work in Gulshan-e-Ravi.

They offered him a juice that left him unconscious. When he gained consciousness, he found himself in a hotel in Mandi Faizabad.

When he said he was feeling unwell, the suspects took him to a hospital, where he was administered an injection, leaving him unconscious again.

When he gained consciousness after two hours, he was feeling pain and found stiches on his abdomen.

When he cried for help, the suspects fled from the scene, he alleged.

He stated that one Shakeel alias Shery, who had taken him to the hospital, told him that Dr Zafar was his brother-in-law and Nadeem had brought him for organ transplant after receiving money.

He paid the complainant Rs50,000 and gave him a ticket to Lahore with the instruction to collect the rest of Rs450,000 from Nadeem and Shoib.

Saleem said that he visited the suspects’ homes but they did not pay him and threatened him.

The police said they were investigating the case and searching for the other suspects.