Malkangiri: The police have arrested one Prasant Kundu of Kotameta village in Malkangiri tahsil on charges of selling off his wife Ranjita’s kidney. The woman had filed a police complaint on this matter after experiencing excruciating pain in her abdomen.
The couple married 12 years ago and have two children. Ranjita alleged that four years abck, Prasant forced her to sell one of her kidneys. Subsequently, he had her kidney removed without her knowledge and sold it.
She came to know about her missing kidney recently after she visited a doctor following abdominal pain. Prasant had her kidney removed without her knowledge when she was admitted to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar in 2018 after being “diagnosed with kidney stone”, the complaint stated.
He allegedly sold the kidney to a person named Asim Haldar of MV 38 village in Malkangiri district. According to Ranjita, Prasant left for Andhra Pradesh eight months ago for work and returned to Malkangiri on August 27 with a second wife.
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