According to ANI news agency, the Delhi Police foiled a human organ transplant scheme on Tuesday, detaining seven individuals, including a doctor. Amit Goel, the commissioner of Delhi Police, claims that the “mastermind” of the case is Bangladeshi, and that both the donors and the recipients of the money came from that country. Every member of the ring is thought to have ties to Bangladesh. “We have arrested a person named Russell who used to arrange patients and donors, and a female doctor involved in the transplant has also been arrested,” DCP Goel said in a statement.
The seven individuals detained in this case are currently being investigated.
Going back to 2019, Goel stated of the organ transplant scam, “They used to charge ₹25-30 lakh for each transplant.” The DCP claims that the accused doctor has connections to two or three hospitals. “Her involvement in this case was that she was assisting with organ transplants even though she knew the recipient and donor were not related by blood,” DCP Goel stated. The Transplantation of Human Organs Act (2014) of India states that organ donations are only permitted from first-degree relatives, such as parents and siblings.
If the receiver is not a close family, no living Indian donor may give their organs to a foreign recipient. For the relationship between the recipient and the donor to be legitimate for transplantation, a senior member of the recipient’s embassy must also vouch for it. Only in the event that no Indian patient qualifies for organ donation are these situations taken into consideration.
