A technician, who worked for kidney thugs involved in the multi-crore organ transplant racket, on Monday recorded his statement before a Delhi court following the CBI's claim that he wanted to admit his guilt in the case.
In a five-hour-long proceeding, Metropolitan Magistrate Chandra Shekhar recorded the statement of Jagdish under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Jagdish, one of the technical staff of the kidney transplant racket kingpin Dr Amit Kumar, was earlier scheduled to record his statement on February 23, but the court could not do so due to its preoccupation with the recording of statement of two other accused, Dr Saraj Kovind and Gyasuddin.
The CBI had on February 21 filed applications before the court stating that the three accused, who were in its custody, wanted to record their confessional statements.
"They want to make their statements before the court. They have also shown a desire and willingness to confess their guilt and state all facts within their knowledge," the agency had claimed.
The court, allowing the three accused to record their statements, had sent them to judicial custody to give them a chance to re-consider their decision as their statement could be used as evidence against them during the trial.
Dr Kovind allegedly helped Dr Kumar in performing surgeries at his nursing home in Gurgaon.
Jagdish allegedly working as technician while Gyassudin worked as a tout and arranged donors.
Kumar and others have been booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 342 (illegal confinement), 326 (causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and Section 18 and 19 of Transplantation of
Human Organs Act of 1994.
