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06-25-2016, 05:01 AM
NEW DELHI: Indian police said on Friday they have arrested a man for receiving a kidney through an illegal organ donation racket run out of one of the country’s top hospitals.
Ashutosh Singh, 22, is alleged to have bought the kidney through a criminal gang that forged documents to facilitate the transplant at an upscale Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.
He is accused of paying 2.5 million rupees ($36,000) to the gang, which bought the organs from poor people for just 300,000 rupees and sold them on to those in need.
"He was arrested on Thursday and we are questioning him," said M.S. Randhawa, south Delhi’s deputy commissioner of police.
Organs can only be donated by close relatives or by **n-relatives approved by a special committee in India and buying and selling them is illegal.
But millions of Indians suffer from kidney disease, and a chronic shortage of organs for transplant has fuelled a black market.
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Ashutosh Singh, 22, is alleged to have bought the kidney through a criminal gang that forged documents to facilitate the transplant at an upscale Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.
He is accused of paying 2.5 million rupees ($36,000) to the gang, which bought the organs from poor people for just 300,000 rupees and sold them on to those in need.
"He was arrested on Thursday and we are questioning him," said M.S. Randhawa, south Delhi’s deputy commissioner of police.
Organs can only be donated by close relatives or by **n-relatives approved by a special committee in India and buying and selling them is illegal.
But millions of Indians suffer from kidney disease, and a chronic shortage of organs for transplant has fuelled a black market.
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