A year after being cheated in the scheme, he got into crime. He allegedly ran a fake gas agency. At the same time, he allegedly started the illegal kidney transplant racket. During an interrogation with police, he confessed that from the year 1994 to 2004, he had facilitated more than 125 kidney transplants illegally for which Sharma was paid Rs 5 lakh to 7 lakh each transplant. In 2004, he was arrested in Gurgaon, Haryana after getting caught for his involvement in kidney racket scandal. During the same period, Devendra Sharma and his gang were also involved in the abduction and murder of taxi drivers and selling the taxis in the black market of Uttar Pradesh. He used to make Rs 20,000 to 25,000 for each vehicle. In 2004, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Rajasthan court in a murder case of a taxi driver in
Jaipur,
Rajasthan. He confessed to killing more than 50 people. He has been convicted in a 6-7 murder cases. He was released on a two-month parole on 9 June 2023 but failed to return to prison. In May 2025, he was arrested by the
Delhi Police from an
ashram in
Dausa, Rajasthan, where he had been living as a
priest. ==See also==