JJ Hospital Bribery accused had handled over 500 kidney transplant files: ACB
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Mumbai: An official of a state-run hospital here, arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 80,000 for clearing the file of a kidney transplant patient, had processed over 500 such files since 2017, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) told a court here Thursday. On Monday, the ACB arrested has Tushar Savarkar (34), a social service superintendent at government-run J J Hospital and Sachin Salve (32), a coordinator at a private hospital.
They were produced before Additional Sessions Judge Dinesh Deshmukh Thursday after their police (ACB) custody ended. The judge extended their police custody till October 6.
Savarkar was responsible for arranging meetings and getting approved the file of a person needing kidney transplant from the Organ Transplant Committee at J J hospital, special public prosecutor Sunil Gonsalves said.
"Savarkar joined the hospital in 2017 and had cleared 550 such files since then. We need to probe if he had taken bribes earlier," Gonsalves said.
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