LAHORE: A local court has handed over an accused Abdul Majeed involved in illegal kidney transplant scam to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a three days physical remand.
Earlier, the FIA official produced the accused before Judicial Magistrate Farooq-e-Azam and sought physical remand of the accused for interrogation. They further submitted that the accused was responsible for connecting foreign patients seeking kidney transplants with the already arrested suspects Dr Fawad, Dr Altamash and others.
At this, the court handed over the accused to FIA on a three days remand and directed to produce him again on expiry of the remand term.
The FIA had registered a case against the accused Altamash, Dr Fawad and others- under Human Organ Transplant Act. The accused were arrested during a raid when they were carrying out an illegal transplant in a posh locality of the city a few days ago.
