Court adjourns hearing on arrested Vizag doctor's release plea

Not satisfied with the affidavit filed by Odisha police in an alleged kidney sale case, the Orissa High Court today directed them to file a fresh one by July 7.
Police from the city have arrested at least seven persons, including director of a Vizag-based private hospital N Prabhakar Babu in an alleged kidney sale case last week.
Incidentally, Babu has already been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.
Meanwhile, a division bench of Justices Indrajit Mohanti and Sangam Kumar Sahoo adjourned the hearing on the habeas corpus writ filed by Babu's wife and fixed the matter to be heard again on July 8 after the copy of investigative officer's affidavit is served on the petitioner counsel.

As directed by the High Court, inspector S K Sinha of the local Mangalabag Police Station, who had led a team of three policemen to Andhra Pradesh to arrest Babu, appeared personally but failed to answer satisfactorily to the queries of the bench.
Babu's wife N Rathnakumari had approached the High Court seeking its intervention to release her ailing husband from Cuttack police.
Babu was taken into police custody on June 17 from Vizag hospital and soon after his arrest, he was taken ill, police sources said.
It was only after Andhra Pradesh High Court's intervention that the Cuttack police managed to bring him here on transit remand on Wednesday evening.