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A court in Mumbai on Wednesday remanded L H Hiranandani Hospital CEO and four doctors, arrested in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket, in police custody till August 14.
Hospital CEO Sujit Chatterjee, medical director Anurag Naik, Mukesh Shetye, Mukesh Shaha and Prakash Shetye were arrested on Tuesday 9 August under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act on the basis of a report by the Director of State Health Services Department, which named them during the inquriy.
Police also wanted to find out if there was any exchange of money among the doctors, agents and donors in the alleged racket. Police are also studying the Call Detail Record (CDR) of the doctors and the racketeers arrested earlier.
However, the defence lawyers told the court that it was not the doctors’ job to scrutinise the documents. They also argued that there was a separate Ethics Committee which screens the documents before allowing transplants.
Following the bust-up, nine persons, including the donor, receiver and agents were arrested.
Police is now also probing whether anybody else received kidney using similar subterfuge and if the hospital authorities were involved.
(Inputs: PTI)
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