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Kidney racket running on Facebook, claims IPS officer

India TV News Desk [Published on:13 May 2014, 5:33 PM]
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Lucknow: A senior IPS officer has alleged that members of a kidney racket are using social networking site Facebook to lure people to sell their vital organs.  


The 1992-batch Uttar Pradesh-cadre IPS officer, Amitabh Thakur who is posted as the Inspector General of Police (Civil Defence), has filed a complaint with the local police, alleging that a gang is contacting Facebook users to purchase their kidney.

They are offering for Rs 3.5-4 lakh for a kidney, he said.

In his complaint, Thakur claimed that one of his friends from Noida had been contacted by a person on Facebook and was offered Rs 3.5 lakh for his renal organ.

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