Word: siddaraj
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...outright theft from living people had not been lodged before. When Velu's story hit the newspapers, the authorities acted. In New Delhi a long-pending national statute outlawing the sale of human organs from live donors was finally put into effect. In Bangalore police arrested Dr. K.S. Siddaraj, head of nephrology at the government-run Victoria Hospital. He was accused of having referred his poorer patients to private hospitals in the city as potential kidney donors and of receiving a 15% commission on every resulting transplant. Also arrested were a general practitioner, Dr. Syed Audil Ahmed, and two alleged...
...accused face charges of theft, fraud and conspiracy; if convicted, they could be jailed for as long as 10 years. Siddaraj, who denied any involvement in the transplants, was released on $6,600 bail. The other suspects, still in custody, claim their actions were legal, as the villagers had agreed to sell their kidneys. In a Bangalore police station last week, Ahmed described his role as one of finding recipients in Saudi Arabia. He told Time, ``I thought that I was doing a service to kidney patients and that the government was earning foreign exchange. I was thinking of asking...
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