dehradun it was a policeman overhearing a random conversation at a tea shop between two drivers who were tasked to ferry kidney donors to gangotri charitable hospital on the outskirts of dehradun from where the recently busted kidney racket was being run that eventually led to the whole affair coming out in the open almost a month back constable pankaj sharma posted in the ranipur police station in haridwar was sitting in a tea shop in plain clothes when he overheard two persons discussing the ldquoillegal thingsrdquo happening in the hospital recalling the sequence of events sharma told toi ldquoit was early august and i was having morning tea at a roadside tea shop when i heard two persons sitting adjacent to me talking about the goingson in their hospital they mentioned an organ racket running there although they did not mention the name of the hospitalrdquo since sharmas suspicions were aroused he informed his superiorsmdashsubinspector abhinav sharma and inspector pradeep bishtmdashwho in turn informed haridwar senior superintendent of police ssp krishna kumar vk about the matter speaking to toi krishna kumar said ldquoi was informed that there were some leads that a possible organ racket was running in our area however the leads were not specific since we did not know the name of the hospital or the persons suspected to be involved in it nevertheless i formed a team to work on whatever clues we hadrdquo kumar said the cops used their informersrsquo network and eventually zeroed in on gangotri charitable hospital located in the lattappar area of doiwala on the outskirts of dehradun however as pradeep bisht incharge of ranipur police station recalls they still did not have enough evidence to inform dehradun police or go on an offensive against the syndicate finally after an almost month long exercise during which the police developed sources within and outside the hospital they got specific inputs about donors being taken to the hospital by a middleman in a suv on the night of september 10 acting on the inputs a team of haridwar police subsequently apprehended the vehicle leading to the arrest of five persons including kingpin amit kumars key henchman javed khan who was tasked with arranging kidney donors recognising the key role that sharma played in sniffing out the scam haridwar police has recommended his name for a medal while state police headquarters has decided to award the constable during the january 26 parade next year