Small ₹50,000 dispute exposes Kanpur illegal kidney racket network
A small payment dispute, just ₹50,000 short, ended up exposing a massive illegal kidney racket in Kanpur.
After a donor, who was promised ₹10 lakh but got less, reported it to the police, several people were detained, including a hospital operator and an alleged middleman.
Turns out, this wasn't just one hospital but an entire network.
Donor kidney sold for over ₹90L
The operation preyed on young people struggling financially, buying their kidneys and selling them for huge profits (one even went for over ₹90 lakh).
The group used three different hospitals to keep things under wraps: one for taking organs out, another for donor care, and a third for recipient recovery.
Police raids have uncovered that brokers and medical staff from multiple hospitals were involved, and investigators think this could stretch beyond just Kanpur.