ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has started reinvestigating a case registered a year ago under the Prevention and Control of Human Trafficking Ordinance.

Agency`s officials on Thursday told Dawn that the director FIA Islamabad zone had ordered the assistant director FIA anti-human trafficl(ing cell Rawalpindi to reinvestigate the case registered on March 29, 2015.

The director in the order stated that the case should be reinvestigated after adding sections of the Human Organ Transplant Act 2014 to it.

A few weeks ago, the Senate standing committee on interior took notice of a gang which trapped poor people promising them a hefty amount in return for the donation of their organs, and tool< them to India for transplants.

The chairman of the committee, Rehman Malik, ordered action against the gang after a citizen appeared before the committee and narrated how he was trapped by the gang and taken to India for a liver transplant.

In 2014, a case was registered against the gang with the Aabpara police. The FIAalso registered a case against the accusedlastyear.

According to the FIR registered with the FIA, the agency got information that two persons Mohammad Ismail and Mohammad Saqib were operating an office at a plaza in Rawalpindi and allegedly involved in human smuggling to India.

`They got a handsome amount from people who needed human organs and later took needy people to India for liver transplants, the FIR stated.

When FIA officials raided the ofñce, the two accused failed to produce a no-objection certificate (NOC) or permission for taking people to India.

A man who was present in the office during the raid told the FIA that in July 2013 he was also taken to India by the suspects for a liver transplant, the FIR stated, adding later he was paid Rs400,000 by the accused.

When contacted, an officer of the FIA told Dawn on the condition of anonymity: `We received the order from our directorate and started reinvestigating the case.` He said the reinvestigation was in an early stage and he cannot give more details.-Staff Reporter