Kidney transplant racket

Kanpur police have arrested Rohit Tewari, a Class XII passout, for managing 30 illegal kidney transplants by posing as a doctor. The racket, exposed on March 31, involved luring poor individuals to sell kidneys and selling them to wealthy patients for exorbitant prices. Tewari, who was on the run, has been identified as the mastermind behind the operation.

A CBI court here on Tuesday framed charges, including that of murder, against the kingpin of kidney transplantation racket Amit Kumar and eight others, paving the way for start of trial against them.

A trial court has issued a production warrant against Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin of a Kidney transplant racket, in a money laundering case after the police again failed to produce him in the court.

The PGI is verifying the documents of all the kidney donors from Manipur after a native of the north-eastern state alleged that a Kidney transplant racket had forged her documents in order to donate her kidney to a patient at the institute.

The multi-billion rupee Gurgaon kidney scandal came to light in January 2008 when police arrested several people for running a Kidney transplant racket in Gurgaon.

The Delhi High Court was approached by a social activist seeking a transparent policy on kidney transplants to check the menace of illegal organ trade.

MUMBAI: The city police have blamed the Maharashtra health director for not lodging a formal complaint about the Kidney transplant racket, which has led to the release on bail of the nephrologist arrested in the case.

The Powai police probing the Kidney transplant racket have asked Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital to submit details of all transplants conducted this year along with their video recordings. As many as 32 kidney transplants have been carried out in the hospital in 2016 so far

Dr Upendra, an accused in the infamous Kidney transplant racket, was granted bail by a designated court on Monday, exactly six months after his arrest.

City crime branch sleuths and a Telangana police team on Saturday nabbed two persons -Dilip Chauhan and Suresh Prajapati -in connection with a multi-crore international Kidney transplant racket.

Four persons, including a nurse and two cooks, arrested in connection with the Kidney transplant racket, were sent to 14 days judicial custody by a court in Gurgaon.

Task Force sleuths have busted an international Kidney transplant racket and arrested four persons in the city.

Sanjit Sarkar, who works in a private firm, had hired help to clean his home’s septic tank.

A Mumbai court on Monday granted bail to alleged kingpin of the Kidney transplant racket Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan Kumar.

Police arrested a social worker of LH Hiranandani Hospital, Powai, late on Friday for his role in the Kidney transplant racket