Suspect in kidney scandal deported

The alleged leader of a syndicate accused of illegally removing hundreds of kidneys, sometimes from poor laborers held at gunpoint, has been deported from Nepal to India.

Nepalese authorities handed over Amit Kumar to Indian officials, said Upendra Aryal, a top police officer in Nepal’s capital, Katmandu. Indian officials had been seeking his extradition since he was arrested Thursday at a jungle resort in Nepal.

Authorities had been searching for Kumar since last month when he fled after police said they broke up the kidney transplant racket they alleged he ran from the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon.