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Dreadful Doctor: Amit Kumar Ravat
By KTM Reporter in Kathmandu
The infamous Indian doctor called Amit Kumar Ravat has been reported in the Indian and Nepalese press for a number of days before he was caught in a southern Nepal resort hotel on February 07, 2008. According to the press he was not a full-fledged doctor but he holds only diploma, however, he had been doing transplantation of kidneys in his hospital in Harayana, India, and had amassed a huge wealth at the cost of the poor people in Nepal and India. Obviously, he had been running a mafia of kidney collectors in Nepal. The members of mafia have been luring the innocent Nepalis to donate their kidneys for a large sum of money. However, the victims complained that they had not received the money as promised by the mafia agent. So, they demanded the Government of Nepal paying the part of the money they have not received from the money the police had confiscated from Dr. Amit at the time of his arrest in Nepal. He harvested the kidneys from the poor Nepalis and transplanted them to the rich American, Canadian and European patients.
The Nepal Police arrested Dr. Amit from a hotel in Sauraha, Chitwan following the Interpol’s red corner notice, and found him in possession of Indian rupees 936,000 in a bank draft, Euros 145,000 and US$ 18,900 in cash in violation of the Nepalese law on February 07, 2008. The Police also found a Nepali Citizenship certificate and a passport apparently for using to fly to Canada to reunite with his family there.
Next morning, a special team of police brought him to Kathmandu. The police made him public at the press conference held at the Ranipokhari Metropolitan Police in Kathmandu at 11:30 A.M. on Friday, February 08, 2008.
According to the Nepalese press, Dr. Amit offered two million rupees in bribe to the Nepalese police for his release. The Nepalese TV called ‘Avenue’ aired the footage of the press conference held by the Nepal police to make Dr. Amit public, and showed how the police officers whispered to Dr. Amit from behind, apparently telling him what to say to the public. Dr. Amit repeatedly listened to them turning to them, and then to the press people, and speaking to them obviously following the whisper of the police.
The Nepal Police officials told the reporters at the press conference, they would produce Dr. Amit in the court on Sunday, as the Saturday is the weekend holiday in Nepal, and charged him with possessing the foreign currency beyond the limit permitted by the Nepalese law.
The Indian Police had issued a red corner notice for arresting Dr Amit for his involvement in the kidney mafia in India. So, the Nepal police officials hinted that the Government of Nepal might extradite him to India.
The Indian press had been dubbing Dr Amit, as "Doctor Horror" charging him for forcing or tricking around 500 people to donating their kidneys. He fled to Nepal after the Indian Police arrested his accomplice Dr. Upendra, and reported that Dr. Amit is the mastermind of the International kidney deal.
On February 09, 2008, the Nepal Police turned over the kidney mafia leader Dr. Amit to the Indian officials at the International Airport, Kathmandu while Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Ram Chandra Poudel was talking to the audience at an interaction event called a face-to-face program that the mafia leader Dr. Amit would be extradited to India only after completing the necessary legal procedures in Nepal. Prime Minster Girija Prasad Koirala had ordered the Minister of State for Home, Ram Kumar Chaudhary to turn over Dr. Amit to the Indian officials. Legal experts believe that it is against the Nepalese law and the Prime Minister behaved as if he is above the law. The Indian officials took him to India on the regular flight of the Indian Airlines in the late afternoon.
The Nepalese and Indian press reported that a village in the Karve district in Nepal, about 55 km southeast of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu has been the victim of the kidney mafia. In the past three years, at least one member from each family in the poor village has sold their kidneys in either Gurgaon near New Delhi or in Chennai, India. Poverty has been the main reason for selling their kidneys for quick money. However, they received less than the half of the money they were promised. Some victims even did not receive anything. Most of them have regretted for selling their kidneys.
