Chandrapur, June 27 -- : A court in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Saturday remanded Delhi-based doctor Ravindrapal Singh, the alleged kingpin of an international kidney trafficking racket, to police custody till July 7 for further investigation into the case.
Singh surrendered before the Brahmapuri court after the Supreme Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea.
He was initially sent to judicial custody before the police sought his custodial interrogation, contending that sustained questioning was necessary to trace the wider organ trafficking network.
The court accepted the plea and granted police custody till July 7.
The case surfaced after Roshan Kule, a farmer from Nagbhid tehsil in Chandrapur district, alleged that he had ...