PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday remanded eight alleged members of a recently busted illegal transplant racket to the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency for two more days.

Judicial magistrate Aftab Jawed directed the FIA officials to produce suspects in his court again on Oct 9.

The court extended the remand after the FIA`s investigating team claimed it wanted to further interrogate suspects to trace `some veryinfluential` peopleinvolvedin theillegal transplant business.

Azhar Yousaf and Saeed Khan, lawyers for the suspects, opposed the grant of further custody of their clients to the FIA.

They said the alleged FIA raid on Nowshera`s transplant facility took place on Sept 26 and their clients had been in the custody of the FIA since then.The lawyers said the FIA wanted to harass and humiliate suspects to pressure them to confess to the illegal kidney transplant.

FIA assistant director (legal) Tanveer Hussain Langrial and FIA Multan SHO produced the suspects in the court seeking their further remand, saying they were tasked with looking into the case on Oct 3 leaving them with just three days to do the task.

They said the activities of suspects were spread in Mansehra and parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

The two also requested the court to examine the records of the case saying some sensitive information was available in them.

The suspects included Dr Abdul Aziz, who was allegedly operating on kidney donor Mohammad Babar and kidney recipient Samiullah during the FIA raid on the privately-owned Dua Surgical Hospital, Pabbi town, Nowshera on Sept 26.

The seven other suspects are medical technicians Naveed Ahmad, Mohammad Farooq and Bilal Yamin, nursing helper Mohammad Kamran, driver Shahid Iqbal and two others, including Abdur Rehman and Asmatullah.

The suspectsarechargedundersecdons10 and 11 of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 2010, and SectionThe lawyers said the FIA wanted to harass and humiliate suspects to pressure them to confess to the illegal kidney transplant.

FIA assistant director (legal) Tanveer Hussain Langrial and FIA Multan SHO produced the suspects in the court seeking their further remand, saying they were tasked with looking into the case on Oct 3 leaving them with just three days to do the task.

They said the activities of suspects were spread in Mansehra and parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

The two also requested the court to examine the records of the case saying some sensitive information was available in them.

The suspects included Dr Abdul Aziz, who was allegedly operating on kidney donor Mohammad Babar and kidney recipient Samiullah during the FIA raid on the privately-owned Dua Surgical Hospital, Pabbi town, Nowshera on Sept 26.

The seven other suspects are medical technicians Naveed Ahmad, Mohammad Farooq and Bilal Yamin, nursing helper Mohammad Kamran, driver Shahid Iqbal and two others, including Abdur Rehman and Asmatullah.

The suspectsarechargedundersecdons10 and 11 of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 2010, and SectionThe lawyers said the FIA wanted to harass and humiliate suspects to pressure them to confess to the illegal kidney transplant.

FIA assistant director (legal) Tanveer Hussain Langrial and FIA Multan SHO produced the suspects in the court seeking their further remand, saying they were tasked with looking into the case on Oct 3 leaving them with just three days to do the task.

They said the activities of suspects were spread in Mansehra and parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

The two also requested the court to examine the records of the case saying some sensitive information was available in them.

The suspects included Dr Abdul Aziz, who was allegedly operating on kidney donor Mohammad Babar and kidney recipient Samiullah during the FIA raid on the privately-owned Dua Surgical Hospital, Pabbi town, Nowshera on Sept 26.

The seven other suspects are medical technicians Naveed Ahmad, Mohammad Farooq and Bilal Yamin, nursing helper Mohammad Kamran, driver Shahid Iqbal and two others, including Abdur Rehman and Asmatullah.

The suspectsarechargedundersecdons10 and 11 of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 2010, and SectionThe lawyers said the FIA wanted to harass and humiliate suspects to pressure them to confess to the illegal kidney transplant.

FIA assistant director (legal) Tanveer Hussain Langrial and FIA Multan SHO produced the suspects in the court seeking their further remand, saying they were tasked with looking into the case on Oct 3 leaving them with just three days to do the task.

They said the activities of suspects were spread in Mansehra and parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

The two also requested the court to examine the records of the case saying some sensitive information was available in them.

The suspects included Dr Abdul Aziz, who was allegedly operating on kidney donor Mohammad Babar and kidney recipient Samiullah during the FIA raid on the privately-owned Dua Surgical Hospital, Pabbi town, Nowshera on Sept 26.

The seven other suspects are medical technicians Naveed Ahmad, Mohammad Farooq and Bilal Yamin, nursing helper Mohammad Kamran, driver Shahid Iqbal and two others, including Abdur Rehman and Asmatullah.

The suspectsarechargedundersecdons10 and 11 of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 2010, and Section109 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

According to the FIA, the illegal hospital, where the raid was conduct, belonged to drug inspector Mohammad Tayyab, Dr Saifullah Afridi and ring leader of the group Zaf ar, who belongs to Punjab and is allegedly involved in illegal transplants in different parts of the country.

The alleged kidney donor, Mohammad Babar, a resident of Nankana Sahib in Punjab, told the FIA team that he had sold his kidney for Rs150,000, while kidney recipient Samiullah, who is an Afghan national, said he had purchased the same for Rs1.6 million.

Meanwhile, Dr Abdul Aziz Dawar`s father Hafiz Mohammad Usman said his son was only a trainee medical officer at the Hayatabad Institute of Kidney Diseases and was not highly qualified surgeon capable of kidney transplant.

He requested the Peshawar High Court`s chief justice to order a judicial inquiry into the matter saying influential elements had notbeen apprehended andinstead ordinary workers at the hospital were made scapegoat.

He added that the FIA team should record statement of qualified surgeons on the subjectto ascertain the expertise ofhis son and other suspects.