A local court here found five doctors and a former police official guilty in the infamous kidney scam which was unearthed in 2002 by the Punjab Police.
The five doctors who were held guilty by the Additional District Session Judge are former Government Medical College (GMC) Principal Dr OP Mahajan, the then Head of Forensic Department of GMC Dr. Jagdish Gargi, Dr SK Grover, Dr HS Bhutani and Dr Rajinder Singh.
Former Police inspector Suresh Kumar from Haryana Police who had allegedly got transplanted kidney by illegitimate means was also found guilty. Public Prosecutor RK Salwan said that quantum of punishment would be pronounced by the Court on November 8.
All the accused who were present in the court were arrested following the court’s order and sent to Central Jail, Amritsar. In 2002, case was registered in a local Police Station where kidney of a minor boy Bagicha Singh was allegedly extracted from his body fraudulently.
At that time Dr OPMahajan was the Principal cum Chairman of Kidney Transplant Authorization Committee (KTAC) of GMC Amritsar and Dr. Jagdish Gargi was member of the KTAC.
It was stated in the FIR that Police inspector Suresh Kumar from Haryana Police was the recipient of Kidney which was removed from the body of Bagicha Singh who was threatened with barrel of pistol by the recipient.
Due to the threat, the donor boy had given his consent to donate his kidney before the KTAC. It was also alleged in the FIR that chairman and member of KTAC were well aware of the facts that donor was not willing to donate his kidney and was also minor which was against medical norms.