Lucknow: An FIR was registered on Thursday by the police at Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow on a complaint of a senior IPS officer, who alleged that members of a kidney racket are using social networking site Facebook to lure people to sell their vital organs.

The case has been registered under various sections of IPC including Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 on complaint of IPS officer Amitabh Thakur that a kidney racket was being run on Facebook, police source said in Lucknow.

The complaint was filed by Thakur on May 13 but FIR was not registered after which he met SSP Pravin Kumar, who ordered registration of FIR.