Kathmandu: Nepalese police have claimed that the alleged kidney transplant racket kingpin Dr Amit Kumar had secret Valentines who used to send him SMSes professing their love and support while he was on the run.

The love messages sent to Kumar, who was deported to India last week after his arrest from a jungle resort in southern Nepal, were by women other than his wife, according to a police officer.

Police sources said that the tainted doctor appeared to have romantic relations with more than one woman.

One of the SMSes to Kumar recorded in the police file says: "Jaan, take care I am with u, don't worry. OK. I love u very much." The sender's name began with the letter "A", who had used a Canadian SIM card, The Himalayan Times reported.

Another message sender asked him not to worry. The message read: "Never hesitate in taking risks and working hard b coz you have to dive deep into the sea to find the pearls," adding Hav a gr8 day. Love."

These messages were sent from two different SIM cards, according to the police, who believed that none of the SMSes were sent by Kumar's wife, who is also based in Canada. Police came to known about the SMSes while interrogating Kumar at the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police's Crime Division after his arrest.

The alleged kidney don also frequently visited casinos, dance bars and night clubs here during his brief visits to Nepal, the police said. International criminal Charles Sobhraj was also arrested from the Casino Royale here in August 2003, following which he was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing an American woman in Kathmandu in 1975.

Source : PTI