Police have registered a case against 15 persons, including the managing trustee of the Ruby Hall Clinic, a leading private hospital in Pune, and some of its employees in connection with an alleged malpractice during a kidney transplant procedure in March this year, an official said today.
The offence was registered at Koregaon Park police station late on Wednesday evening based on a complaint filed by the Maharashtra government's health department, he said.
"We have registered the case against 15 persons, including the Ruby Hall Clinic's managing trustee Parvez Grant and the staffers of the hospital. They also include the woman who donated her kidney, the recipient man and his wife," he said.
The accused were booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 420 (cheating), 465, 468, 471 (all pertaining to forgery), 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) and sections of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, he said.
A woman from Kolhapur, who was allegedly promised Rs 15 lakh, had fraudulently posed as the wife of a man who needed a transplant and donated her kidney to a young woman patient. In turn, the young woman's mother donated her kidney to the man.
Such a swap involving two patients and their relatives is carried out when the patients cannot receive a kidney from their own family because of a blood group mismatch.
On March 29, four days after undergoing the transplant surgery at the Ruby Hall Clinic, the woman had revealed her real identity after she had had a dispute over money.
The hospital had then alerted the police, which in turn reported the incident to the health department.
The department had later suspended the hospital's registration for organ transplantation, however, the Bombay High Court had stayed that order.
The functioning of the regional organ transplant authorisation committee was also temporarily suspended.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Pune Boy, "Influenced By Social Media", Sexually Assaults 3-Year-Old Girl Case Against Woman, Son For Killing Dog By Hanging It From Tree In Pune Rs 5 Crore Seized From Car Amid Model Code Of Conduct In Maharashtra Trump Says US Ownership Of Greenland Absolutely Necessary, Nation Responds Allu Arjun Summoned By Hyderabad Police For Questioning In Stampede Case Delta Airline Passenger Gets Frustrated After His First-Class Seat Was Given To Service Dog Former US President Bill Clinton Hospitalised With Fever 21-Year-Old Killed, Another Injured In Stabbing By Juveniles In Delhi: Cops Israel Acknowledges It Killed Ex-Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.