The Great Kidney Bazaar

January 30, 2008

The unearthing of an illegal kidney trade in Gurgaon, a Delhi suburb, could have hardly come as a surprise since India has long been notorious for being the ‘warehouse for kidneys’—a great kidney bazaar. Even less surprising was the fact that the alleged kingpin of this racket, a doctor with various aliases who had earned crores of rupees through unethical means, managed to escape when police raided his ‘clinic’. The police find it easier to catch the small time criminal, not the affluent ones. (Asian Tribune)