Interrogation begins for kidney kingpin

NEW DELHI: According to TV reports, Dr Amit Kumar, prime accused in the kidney transplant racket, has been taken to the CBI headquarters in New Delhi for interrogation ( see video ). Kumar, who was nabbed from a jungle lodge in Nepal, has been brought back to India from Kathmandu ( see video ).

CBI officials accompanied Kumar on his way back to India, according to Times Now . This came shortly after Nepal officials handed him over to India ( see video ). Kumar will straight be taken away for interrogation.

On Friday, CBI took up the matter of Kumar's handing over with Nepalese government through the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said.

Kumar was arrested in Nepal by the local police from a jungle resort at Chitwan near the Indian border on Thursday after a two-week international hunt.

Kumar allegedly offered bribe to the tune of Rs 20 lakh to Nepal police team which arrested him ( see video ). "I will give you Rs 20 lakh if you let me go," Kumar was quoted as saying by hotel employee Maheshwar Regmi. Police had seized a bank draft for Indian rupees 936,000, and Euros 145,000 and USD 18,900 in cash from him during his arrest.