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Title: Indian police arrest suspected kidney snatching gang
Post by: bijou on January 25, 2008, 01:47:00 PM
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Police arrested five people, including a doctor, in the suburbs of Delhi early this morning for allegedly removing kidneys from young men without their permission and selling them to wealthy patients.
The illegal organ transplant trade was being run from a private hospital in Gurgaon, just outside Delhi. News reports claimed that at least 500 kidneys had been illegally transplanted.

Gurgaon's police commissioner, Mahender Lal, said a doctor, identified only as Upendra, ran the clinic from a private house.

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link (http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,2246988,00.html)
Title: Re: Indian police arrest suspected kidney snatching gang
Post by: jendf on January 25, 2008, 01:55:33 PM
And here I thought removing kidneys in this manner was just an urban legend.
Title: Re: Indian police arrest suspected kidney snatching gang
Post by: SilverOrchid on January 25, 2008, 01:56:34 PM
Quote from: jendf on January 25, 2008, 01:55:33 PM
And here I thought removing kidneys in this manner was just an urban legend.

Me too!
Title: Re: Indian police arrest suspected kidney snatching gang
Post by: bijou on January 25, 2008, 02:07:58 PM
Quote from: jendf on January 25, 2008, 01:55:33 PM
And here I thought removing kidneys in this manner was just an urban legend.
They probably got the idea from an urban legend. Life imitates art.
Title: Re: Indian police arrest suspected kidney snatching gang
Post by: Dixie*Darling on January 25, 2008, 02:59:10 PM
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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Sorry.  You understand I just felt the need post that.  :whatever:
Title: Re: Indian police arrest suspected kidney snatching gang
Post by: bijou on January 26, 2008, 05:11:41 AM
Quote from: Dixie*Darling on January 25, 2008, 02:59:10 PM
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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Sorry.  You understand I just felt the need post that.  :whatever:
  Of course we understand.  :bolt:  :-)