'Threatened, tricked', TN man flown to Cairo for job, but returns without kidney
Sumitra Debroy | TNN | Nov 23, 2017, 06:48 IST
Yaseer Ahmed Basha, 29, leads a lonely life away from his wife and two
children at his native village of Vellore in Tamil Nadu. "I am worried
that if we live in the same house, my wife will find out that I no
longer have two kidneys. I miss my children but I am better off without
my wife knowing anything about it," he told TOI on Wednesday over phone.
Basha, father to a six-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter, is unaware that he too is now an accused in the international kidney racket for selling his left kidney to Malad resident Pankaj Rao. He maintained that he was threatened and tricked into giving his kidney after he went to Cairo in July with the promise of driving an Uber cab. "It was 99% deception, but 1% my greed for money," he said. He now makes a living driving an autorickshaw in his village to support his parents there and his family in Taloja.
Burdened by a 7 lakh debt borrowed from his friends after his wife met with an accident in 2011, Basha said the money he earned by driving an auto was "never enough". He migrated to Mumbai in 2014 and began driving aggregator cabs. When things did not look up, he started looking for jobs on the web. That's when he came in contact with Ahmedabad-based Shiksha Consultancy, which was run by the racket mastermind Suresh Prajapati.
"I first travelled to Ahmedabad in June and was put up in Akash Lodge. Oddly, I was asked to give my blood samples. When I questioned them, Prajapati said international jobs require proof of physical fitness. Things started moving promptly, and on July 15, I was sent to Cairo," he said. At Cairo, Basha said he was received by an individual named Madhu who took him to an apartment, where five people were already staying. The very next day he was taken to Nile Badrawi Hospital for a battery of blood tests and scans.
Basha, father to a six-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter, is unaware that he too is now an accused in the international kidney racket for selling his left kidney to Malad resident Pankaj Rao. He maintained that he was threatened and tricked into giving his kidney after he went to Cairo in July with the promise of driving an Uber cab. "It was 99% deception, but 1% my greed for money," he said. He now makes a living driving an autorickshaw in his village to support his parents there and his family in Taloja.
Burdened by a 7 lakh debt borrowed from his friends after his wife met with an accident in 2011, Basha said the money he earned by driving an auto was "never enough". He migrated to Mumbai in 2014 and began driving aggregator cabs. When things did not look up, he started looking for jobs on the web. That's when he came in contact with Ahmedabad-based Shiksha Consultancy, which was run by the racket mastermind Suresh Prajapati.
"I first travelled to Ahmedabad in June and was put up in Akash Lodge. Oddly, I was asked to give my blood samples. When I questioned them, Prajapati said international jobs require proof of physical fitness. Things started moving promptly, and on July 15, I was sent to Cairo," he said. At Cairo, Basha said he was received by an individual named Madhu who took him to an apartment, where five people were already staying. The very next day he was taken to Nile Badrawi Hospital for a battery of blood tests and scans.
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