Court sentences 2 doctors in Amritsar kidney scam

Court sentences 2 doctors in Amritsar kidney scam

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Amritsar:22.12.2021

Nineteen years after a case was filed in the infamous kidney scam, a local court on Tuesday sentenced two doctors to 10-year imprisonment each and acquitted seven other accused in the case.

Advocate Aman Mahajan said the court of additional sessions judge Darbari Lal sentenced Dr Bhupinder Sandhu and Dr Bhushan Aggarwal to five years in jail each under Section 19 of the Transplantation of Human Organ Act and 10 years’ imprisonment each under Section 304 of the IPC. Both the sentences would run concurrently.

The police had registered two FIRs in the case – one in 2002 at D division police station and the second in 2003 at Civil Lines police station. Former IPS officer-turned-politician Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh had led the probe in the kidney scam.

The court had acquitted former president of Bar Association Pardeep Saini, Dr Jagdeesh Gargi, former head of the forensic department of Government Medical College, Hardyal Mehta, manager Kakkar Hospital, Raj Kumar, Gorakh Ram, Pankaj Gupta, and Mulakh Raj.

Three alleged accused Dr P K Sareen, Dr P K Jain, and advocate Rajan Puri had died during the course of trial while the proceedings against Dr O P Mahajan were stayed by the court due to his poor mental status, said Mahajan.