Gujarat: Major Kidney racket Unearthed
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Police in Gujarat's Anand stumbled upon a major inter-state racket in trafficking of human organs, bringing 13 people to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Tuesday for forensic examination on suspicion that they sold their kidneys, soon after five people complained they had become victims of a gang.
All of them hail from Pandoli village of the district where police have information of 80 such cases though it is yet to ascertain if they fell prey to the racker or were part of it.
Police believe this to be the handiwork of an organised gang awith its roots across Gujarat, Chennai and Sri Lanka.
Bharat Shah, dean, BJ Medical College, where the people are being examined, said it appeared the kidneys had been taken out by expert hands.
"We asked them detailed questions and a seven-member forensic team also carried out medical examination of the patients brought in by police," he said.
All of them hail from Pandoli village of the district where police have information of 80 such cases though it is yet to ascertain if they fell prey to the racker or were part of it.
Police believe this to be the handiwork of an organised gang awith its roots across Gujarat, Chennai and Sri Lanka.
Bharat Shah, dean, BJ Medical College, where the people are being examined, said it appeared the kidneys had been taken out by expert hands.
"We asked them detailed questions and a seven-member forensic team also carried out medical examination of the patients brought in by police," he said.
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