Bhubaneswar, July 14: Police will send a team to Bengal to investigate allegations of kidney theft brought by the 33-year-old employee of transport firm located at Badagada. The case pertains to an alleged illegal kidney transplantation that took place last September but has come to light now.

Bulu Behera, a native of Tulasipur in Cuttack, registered a complaint with Badagada police on Saturday alleging that his employers had removed one of his kidneys on the pretext of collecting blood for his ailing sister. This is the fourth incident of kidney sale in the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar in the last two months.

“We will send a team to the private hospital in Bengal to verify the documents related to kidney transplantation,” said police commissioner R.P. Sharma. The cops are conducting raids to nab the owners of the transport company Prasant Sahu and Susant Sahu, who are absconding.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Bulu’s kidney was removed and transplanted without the knowledge of director, department of medical education and training.

Behera had alleged that the brothers had asked him to stay with their ailing sister Minati Sahu as an attendant in the Bengal hospital and later convinced him to donate blood for her. “I agreed but they injected me with something and I lost consciousness. When I came to, I found my a stitch on my abdomen. When I inquired, the brothers told me that my kidney had been transplanted. They assured me that they would bear all my medical expenses,” said Behera.

The kidney transplantation took place last September. Behera, in his complaint, alleged that the owners of his company had managed to carry out the kidney transplant with the help of forged documents, which identified him falsely as their sister’s husband.

During the last two months, the police have arrested a director of a Visakhapatnam-based private hospital and three others, including the brother of a kidney recipient, after one Namita Nayak alleged that she had been duped by a woman, who lured her into donating her kidney for a hefty amount.

In the first incident, a woman from Cuttack had alleged that she was promised Rs 2.5 lakh for donating her kidney, but she was paid only Rs 50,000 following the transplant at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar last April. The police had also arrested Sarmistha Nayak, kingpin of the racket.