Kathmandu, November 13
Five people who were arrested from Nidan Hospital on the charge of illegal kidney transplantation have been sent to judicial custody until the final verdict.
Lalitpur District Court on Wednesday sent CEO of Pulchowk-based hospital, Bipendra Pradhan; Legal Officer Kumud Kumar Bhattarai,; General Physician Rajesh Panta; Section Officer of Lalitpur District Administration Office, Ram Chandra Ale and the kidney recipient Shankar Lal Lama to judicial custody.
Police had arrested them after a person, whose kidney was removed for the illegal transplant, filed an FIR against nine persons involved in the act, a few months after the August 8 operation.
Lalitpur District Government Attorney Office had filed a case against nine persons as per the investigation report submitted by the Anti-human Trafficking Bureau of Nepal Police, on November 5. Four out of the nine are at large.
