Hiranandani Hospital: Kidney patient shows hired donor as wife, both arrested minutes before transplant

The surgery was stopped at 12.30 pm, minutes before it was to start, after social worker Rajeev Pawar approached the complainant, Mahesh Tanna, an office-bearer of the Bahujan Samaj Party, the police said.

Police said hospital did not look closely at the forged papers. Aman Deshmukh

AN ALLEGED kidney racket was busted at Powai’s Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital Thursday afternoon after a man who was part of the gang reportedly leaked information to a social worker that a patient was to receive a kidney from a donor he had wrongly shown as his wife.

The police arrested four persons in this connection. They are Nepean Sea Road resident Brijkishor Jaiswal (48) who was to undergo the transplant, his son Kisan Jaiswal, a 48-year-old woman from Gujarat who had been falsely represented in hospital records as Jaiswal’s wife Rekha Devi and an agent named Bhejendra Bhisen.

Two others, both alleged agents, were detained for questioning. Bhisen was previously arrested in a similar case in 2007. The surgery was stopped at 12.30 pm, minutes before it was to start, after social worker Rajeev Pawar approached the complainant, Mahesh Tanna, an office-bearer of the Bahujan Samaj Party, the police said.