Overview
- Special Investigation Team and Local Crime Branch units were sent to Delhi and Trichy to detain Dr Ravinder Pal Singh and Dr Rajratnam Govindaswamy named in the probe.
- Dr Singh was detained in Delhi and granted interim bail during transit proceedings, with a court directing him to appear in Chandrapur on January 2, while Dr Govindaswamy is being sought.
- Police say multiple illegal kidney transplants were conducted at STAR KIMS Hospital in Trichy, with patients charged between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 80 lakh per surgery.
- According to investigators, donors received only Rs 5–8 lakh as Dr Singh allegedly took about Rs 10 lakh per case, Dr Govindaswamy around Rs 20 lakh, and agent Krishna roughly Rs 20 lakh.
- The case began with Chandrapur farmer Roshan Kude’s Cambodia surgery linked to crushing debt, leading to arrests of six moneylenders and a fake Solapur doctor under THOTA sections 18 and 19, with financial and digital forensics ongoing.