In the times were living in, it’s not very often we come across stories where a man puts his life at risk for the larger interest of the society. The story of Jaideep Sharma, an MBA student at Pune’s Symbiosis Institute, is both inspiring and exemplary. It all started when one of Jaideep friends suddenly went missing. He decided to find out what happened to him and contacted the middlemen.
“I had met Rajesh at the MBA coaching centre in Jaipur.Since we both belong to Sikar, we bonded in a month’s time. He had mentioned about selling his kidney but he disappeared last year,” Sharma told PTI.
After Jaideep googled about donating kidney, he was contacted by the middlemen when told them he was a willing donor. Thereafter, Sharma played along with the racketeers for several weeks, allowing the police to gather evidence. These men offered to pay a sum of Rs 4 lakh as price of the kidney and asked Jaideep to visit Delhi in April. Realising the threat involved, Jaideep met Delhi Police’s crime branch officials, along with a news channel reporter, on April 13 to expose the racket.
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He was given spy devices and what followed was 40 days of recording and surveillance. He recorded everything right from his interactions with the accused to his interview with the panel of doctors at the hospital. As law allows only close relative to donate kidney, Racketeers arranged fake documents for Jaideep and gave him an identity of an Andhra Pradesh man. Fake IDs like Aadhaar card and voter card, in the name of Polepeddy Snayna Podma Phani Kumar, were prepared for Jaideep. A DNA report showing him as the recipient’s son was also prepared. They gave him Rs 2,500 to get a haircut that would make him look like a member of the recipient’s family,” said a senior investigator. On Thursday, just an hour before Sharma was to be operated upon, the police raided the hospital and rescued him from the operation theatre. The accused were nabbed and now Jaideep’s family has also come to know about what he was doing in Delhi.
“I had lied to my family and told them that I am attending coaching classes in Delhi. But now that they know what I am here for, they are scared and have also scolded me,” he said.
PTI inputs
