Mumbai kidney racket : CEO of hospital and four other doctors remanded to judicial custody
The accused doctors are Dr Sujit Chattarjee (CEO), Dr Anurag Naik, Medical Director, Dr Mukesh Shete, Dr Mukesh Shah and Dr Prakash Shetty.
They were arrested on August 11 after police stumbled on a kidney racket operating from the hospital.
The operation of the racket came to light on July 14 when police found that the donor and the recipient of a kidney transplant were not husband and wife as was shown in the papers.
Further investigations revealed that there was a kidney racket in which insiders of the hospital were involved.
a social worker, some political activists and members of a trade union stopped a kidney transplant, in which the donor and recipient were found tohusban be fake husband and wife.
The accused were produced for remand at Andheri Court on Wednesday.
The doctors were charged under Section 12 and 21 of The Transplantation of Human Organ Act, 1994, said the police.
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