Pune Hospital's Fake Wife For Kidney Transplant Leads To Case Against 15

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.

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.