Indian investigators quiz alleged kidney snatcher

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

NEW DELHI (AFP) — An Indian doctor accused of masterminding an illegal international kidney transplant racket was remanded into custody for two weeks to allow federal investigators to question him, reports said.

Amit Kumar, 43, who was flown to New Delhi from Nepal late Saturday, was taken to the home of city magistrate Sanjiv Jain for the remand hearing to evade journalists camping outside a local court.

The federal Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the judge it needed the time to unravel the illegal kidney transplant scam allegedly spearheaded by Kumar, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Kumar, the subject of an Interpol alert, was tracked down to a hotel in southern Nepal late Thursday after an international manhunt.

Dubbed...