Mandya: The Malavalli Police have arrested five persons including a woman in connection with a kidney racket where a woman had committed suicide recently. 48-year-old Venkatamma of Gangamatha Beedhi had ended her life by jumping into Doddakere in Malavalli town on Jan. 9 and the Police had suspected that she was a victim of the kidney racket.
The arrested have been identified as 28-year-old Tara Nagendra, a resident of Mastammakeri at Malavalli, 46-year-old Dara Gopal alias Kidney Gopal of Shanthi Layout in Ramanagaram, 41-year-old Javaraiah, a snacks seller from Holalu village in Mandya, 49-year-old Raju, a flower seller at Krishnapura in Channapattana and 54-year-old Thimmaiah, a mason from Vijayanagar in Ramanagaram.
