Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested the Chief Executive Officer and four other doctors of the LH Hiranandani Hospital in Mumbai in connection with an alleged kidney racket which came to light in July.
Thirteen people have been arrested so far in connection with the case. The arrests were made on the basis of the reports of a 3-member health inquiry committee.
The racket came to light when the police were tipped off that a kidney transplant operation had been scheduled on July 14 at the privately-run hospital where donor and recipient were not related.
The operation on Brijkishor Jaiswal, the recipient, was stopped as police found that the woman who was donating him the kidney was not his wife, contrary to the papers submitted by the duo.
The woman had pretended to be his wife only to be able to donate the kidney to Jaiswal, according to the police.
Police then started probing if anybody else had received kidney using similar subterfuge and if the hospital authorities were involved.
Earlier this year, doctors and staffers from Delhi's Indraprastha Apollo hospital were held in connection with a suspected kidney racket.
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