New Delhi: Former prime minister VP Singh on Thursday dismissed report of any link between him and Amit Kumar, the kingpin of the multi-crore kidney transplant racket.
"I don't know who is the former prime minister in whose residence Amit had stayed. The police should give clear information in this regard," Singh said in New Delhi.
Singh, who suffered kidney problems, said many people had offered him kidney in the past and "I can get the kidney even today if I wish so".
Earlier one of the key accused, Dr Upender, had claimed that Amit Kumar was close to two former prime ministers.
However, the Moradabad police, who are interrogating Dr Upender, did not reveal the names on the two ex-prime ministers.
Nepal police arrested Amit Kumar on Thursday evening and the Indian authorities are trying to bring him back.
But it may still take two to three days to bring the brain behind the multi-crore kidney transplant racket, from Nepal to India, a senior Haryana police official said on Thursday night.
"It will take around two to three days to get him back to India," Joint Commissioner of Police of Gurgaon Manjit Alawat was quoted as saying by the PTI.
Officials said that a few formalities must be completed before Kumar could be brought back.
They explained that the process starts with officials of Indian Embassy in Nepal getting consular access to meet the arrested person and establishes his identity.
It was only after a positive identification that India would request Nepal for extradition of the arrested person, a spokesman of Indian Embassy said in Kathmandu.
India and Nepal have a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) signed in 1953 on transfer of persons arrested for some alleged crime in each other's territory, a court in Nepal has to be moved where it will have to be proved that the arrested person is prima facie guilty of the crime he is charged with.
(With inputs from PTI)
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