Organ transplant racket: Apollo doctor, three Bangladeshi nationals held in India

Delhi police have arrested a female doctor from Delhi-based Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for her alleged involvement in an organ transplantation racket across Bangladesh and India.

Besides the arrestee, Dr Vijaya Kumari, three Bangladeshi nationals were arrested last month, according to Indian Express.

Dr Kumari was the lone doctor working with the gang and had performed around 15-16 transplants from 2021-23 in Noida-based private Yatharth Hospital, police said.

Patients from Bangladesh were lured by a network of middlemen, Kumari, and their associates for organ transplantation in major hospitals around the Indian capital city.