How My Kidney Was Stolen ?

August 5, Kathmandu. It was 4 PM on May 31. Khil Bahadur Bhujel was standing at Prithvi Chowk in Pokhara. Having arrived in Pokhara for masonry work, he had been without a job for the past few days.

Just then, a black car pulled up in front of him.

An unfamiliar person from the car unexpectedly offered him a job. That person asked him, “Brother, are you looking for work?”

He didn’t hesitate because he needed a job. After his wife and children went with someone else, Khil Bahadur was alone. Even being alone, he had to take care of himself. It was to make a living that he had come from Sindhuli to Pokhara, searching for and doing work.

He got into the car without a word. There was only one person inside the car. Khil Bahadur didn’t ask what the job was, how much it paid, where they were going, or when he would start.

Because he just needed work. He didn’t have any special skills or an educational certificate. He did simple wage labor. Since he was a daily wage earner, he didn’t inquire much about the “job offer.”

The car sped off. After some time, he assumed another person also got into the car. By this time, he had no idea what was happening in the car or to him.

When he regained consciousness, it was probably morning. He was in a building-like place. The environment there was different, and the language of the people was different. He had been taken to the fifth floor of a house and was held captive there.

Because there was no way to get out. The windows and doors were closed. He was told to clean the windows, doors, and floors there. He did so. He assumed that this must be the kind of work he was brought here for.

From time to time, four or five men would come, sit, and have snacks. A month passed this way. Khil Bahadur said, “Dashain is coming, I want to go home.”

They neither let him go nor said anything to him. A few days later, the same black car came. He doesn’t know where they took him in the car. Soon after getting in the car, his eyes began to droop, and he became unconscious. When he regained consciousness, it was Saturday afternoon, August 2, and he was on a pavement in Kalanki Chowk.

One side of his body was cut and taped.

He knew where the contractor (friend) who sometimes gave him work in Kathmandu lived. Somehow, he managed to reach his place in the evening. But he didn’t tell him what had happened to him that day.

The friend bought him a ticket home and gave him a thousand rupees. He reached his home in Sindhuli around three in the afternoon on Sunday. Only when his family members questioned him did he realize his kidney had been removed.

He had gone looking for a job and returned after losing a kidney. Everyone was happy when Bhujel, who had been out of contact for a long time, returned home. But the family’s happiness didn’t last long. “We were so happy to see him suddenly at home,” Bhujel’s sister-in-law Sita Majhi told Onlinekhabar.

After a while, his brother-in-law, Khil Bahadur, lifted his t-shirt, showed the area above his waist, and said, “It’s hurting a lot here, I don’t know what happened.”

The left side of his stomach was cut. He explained the incident in detail.

Soon, a rumor spread in the village, and many speculated, “Did someone remove his kidney?”

But he couldn’t say anything for sure. He just said, “I was made unconscious, and then I woke up after being dropped from a car in Kalanki, Kathmandu.”

That night, the fresh wound hurt so much that he couldn’t sleep. On Monday morning, he was taken to the Dakhaha Kamalakhoj Community and Research Center in Sindhuli.

According to Dr. Naveen Bayar, when the bandage was removed, there were 20 stitches.

An X-ray revealed that his left kidney was missing. “He says he doesn’t know what was done to him,” Dr. Bayar told Onlinekhabar. “When we did a video X-ray, the left kidney was not visible.”

According to Dr. Bayar, the cut on his stomach is still fresh.

“He didn’t even realize that such a large kidney had been removed. As soon as I found out, I informed the police,” Dr. Bayar said.

Bhujel, from Dudhauli Municipality-1 in Sindhuli, had been working as a laborer in road construction for years.

He had left home in the first week of May. He worked in Kathmandu for a few days, then went to Pokhara. While working on a road in Pokhara, he would sleep in a tent pitched on the street.

According to Bhujel, he had been jobless for three days. He was walking on the street looking for work.

“When they offered me a good job, I didn’t think twice,” Bhujel told Onlinekhabar.

According to him, he was lured with a job offer from Prithvi Chowk in Pokhara at 4 PM on May 31 and taken to an unknown location in a car.

“Soon after getting in the car, I fell asleep. The next day, when I woke up around 6-7 in the morning, I was in a different place,” Bhujel said.

It is suspected that he was taken to a place in India. “They spoke in Hindi; the clothes and the way they spoke seemed Indian.”

After realizing he was being held captive, he suggested that since Dashain was approaching, he wanted to go home.

A few days later, they put him in the same black car.

“I don’t remember anything after getting in the car; I just found myself in Kalanki Chowk. I don’t even know which place in India they took me to,” Bhujel said.

His marriage has ended. His wife left with their children two years ago. He is now alone. He has four elder brothers, and he is the third of the brothers.

“Now I’m living with the support of my elder brothers. Because of the lure of a job, I have become physically disabled,” Bhujel said over the phone, expressing his sorrow.

An additional financial burden has been placed on a family that makes a living through simple farming.

According to his sister-in-law, Sita, his health is weak, and his financial situation is even more dire.

They are not in a position to afford medicine. “We only have a house, no land,” Sita says. “We are people who live by working as laborers. A person with a healthy body has come to this state.”

After receiving information about the incident, a local police team went to the victim’s house.

The family has already filed a police report. Sita said that a police team came and investigated. Bhujel says, “Which sinner fooled me and took my kidney? How can this disabled body make a living?”