New Delhi:

At least six people, including a Delhi-based doctor, have been arrested in connection with an alleged organ transplant racket running across Bangladesh and the Delhi-NCR region, police officials said today.

Acting on a tip-off, the Delhi Police Crime Branch had been working on the case for two months. A majority of the donors and recipients are from Bangladesh brought to India on the basis of the fake documents for the surgeries, officials said.

The woman doctor, now working as a kidney transplant surgeon in a well-known hospital in southeast Delhi, was allegedly involved in the surgeries of some people from Bangladesh between 2021 and 2023, the officials said.

She allegedly conducted the surgeries in a Noida-based private hospital where she was a visiting consultant.

Also arrested are an assistant of the doctor and four others, including three Bangladeshi nationals.

The arrests took place over the last two weeks.
 

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Jaipur:

Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau, or ACB, has arrested three men in a major crackdown on an organ transplant racket that issues fake no-objection certificates, or NOCs, in exchange for money.

A staffer of Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital allegedly issued fake certificates for the transplants.

Several NOCs were issued to foreign nationals who had come to Jaipur for treatment, the ACB said.

Twelve hospitals in the state are on the ACB’s radar along with a few in Mumbai.

The SMS Hospital staffer and the middlemen were caught red-handed at the hospital while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 70,000 for an NOC, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (ACB), Ravi, said.

The accused include an SMS Hospital official and organ transplant coordinators at the EHCC Hospital and Fortis Hospital, he said.

The state government issued an order on Monday saying that the assistant administrative officer of SMS Hospital, Gaurav Singh, has been suspended after the ACB arrested him.

A complaint was received that an SMS Hospital staff, in collusion with middlemen, was issuing fake NOCs for organ transplants without the approval of the committee concerned, the ACB said.

The ACB verified the complaint and sent a team to the hospital on Sunday. There they caught Gaurav Singh and Anil Joshi, the organ transplant coordinator of EHCC Hospital, accepting Rs 70,000 as a bribe. Three fake NOCs were also recovered from them.

The team also arrested one Vinod – an organ transplant coordinator of the Fortis Hospital in Jaipur.

The bureau is now checking how many fake certificates were issued and is investigating two hospitals in Jaipur. The premises of Fortis and EHCC hospitals were searched in connection with the case.