Remand extended

LAHORE - Judicial Magistrate Cantt Court Malik Shafique on Friday extended three-day physical remand further to seven accused in the case of illegal business of kidney transplantation. On Friday, police produced accused namely Dr Anees, Dr. Mubashir, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Imran, Sagher Younis, Nadeem Fiaz and Ali Akbar before the court to seek extension in their physical remand to continue investigation. The court extended remand of the accused for three days further, and directed police to produce them again before the court by July 11. According to case details, one Muhammad Riaz had got registered an FIR against the aforementioned accused. He said that on June 30 he met with Muhammad Younis as he was depressed owing to the poverty and told him that he need money but had no source of income, on which one Younis told him that he would take him to a house where he would get a handsome amount if he was ready to transplant his kidney. He was taken to a home located at Street No 6 Block-A of Al-Faisal Town where he was directed to lie down on a stretcher, complainant added. Then doctors told him that his kidney would be transplanted to one Abdullah, a foreigner and he would be paid Rs 110,000. He then feared and raised hue and cry after that the residents of the area gathered on the spot.

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