HC relief to 5 doctors awarded 5 years jail in alleged kidney scam case
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Amritsar: Six accused in Amritsar "Kidney Scam" in 2002 were granted a relief by the Punjab and Haryana High court recently after the 2013 trial court's order of 5 years imprisonment for the illegal organ transplant was dismissed by the HC.
The five doctors who were given relief include Dr OP Mahajan, then chairman, authorisation committee, and former principal, Government Medical College, Amritsar; and Dr Jagdish Gargi, then head, department of forensic medicine and member of authorisation committee; Dr HS Bhutani, Dr Arjinder Singh and Dr SPS Grover, associated with New Ruby Hospital, Jalandhar. The sixth person to get relief is Suresh Kumar Sharma, a retired inspector of Haryana Police who was a kidney recipient, who was awarded 8 years imprisonment.
The alleged case of an illegal kidney transplant was registered in 2002 by a minor donor, 17-year old Bagicha Singh of Jagraon, who alleged that he was offered Rs 40,000 for the confinement. and accused that the concerned doctors forcibly removed his kidney. The Minor died in 2004 after which his father appeared as the prosecution witness.
It was reported that this case is an offshoot of the main kidney scam in 2002 where around 2000 illegal kidney transplants had come to light.
The five doctors who were given relief include Dr OP Mahajan, then chairman, authorisation committee, and former principal, Government Medical College, Amritsar; and Dr Jagdish Gargi, then head, department of forensic medicine and member of authorisation committee; Dr HS Bhutani, Dr Arjinder Singh and Dr SPS Grover, associated with New Ruby Hospital, Jalandhar. The sixth person to get relief is Suresh Kumar Sharma, a retired inspector of Haryana Police who was a kidney recipient, who was awarded 8 years imprisonment.
The alleged case of an illegal kidney transplant was registered in 2002 by a minor donor, 17-year old Bagicha Singh of Jagraon, who alleged that he was offered Rs 40,000 for the confinement. and accused that the concerned doctors forcibly removed his kidney. The Minor died in 2004 after which his father appeared as the prosecution witness.
It was reported that this case is an offshoot of the main kidney scam in 2002 where around 2000 illegal kidney transplants had come to light.
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