The inability of the national organ transplant programme to address the shortfall in donors leaves the field wide open for traffickers.
He called himself Rancho, after the character in the 2009 Hindi film “3 Idiots”. It’s how he explained away his performing dozens of kidney transplants when he only had the qualifications of a lab technician. “I’m not well educated,” he’d say, “but I’m well read and learn fast.”
The police were impressed with Kuldeep Ray Vishwakarma. Inspector Bharat Lal Meena, who arrested him earlier this month, has fond memories of the four days Kuldeep spent in police custody. “Some people have the gift of the gab,” he says. “Kuldeep was one of them.”
He was one of 11 people the …
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