Man arrested in 2016 for forging doctors for transplant

Mumbai: On July 14, 2016, the Powai Police had foiled a kidney transplant attempt at Hiranandani Hospital, wherein a 48-year-old man tried to establish the donor woman as his wife and get her kidney transplanted to himself using forged papers.

The police was prompted into action after activist Mahesh Tanna alerted them that a kidney transplant, suspicious in nature, was about to take place in the hospital.

When the police team verified the documents of the man and woman, they found that the documents were forged and immediately took the duo in custody. Further investigations revealed that five doctors of the hospital were involved and they were arrested too

In all, the police arrested 14 persons in connection with the racket. After the charges of an organ donation racket were established, the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) set up a committee to look into the racket and found irregularities in four kidney transplant cases. The DHS cancelled the hospital’s license to conduct organ transplant operations in August 2016.

The hospital tried to get its license back in December 2016, but a DHS panel rejected the same on the grounds that the hospital had several legal cases under various sections of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 going on against it.