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Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Sassoon hospital's suspended senior doctor held in 2022 kidney racket case in Pune
Pune: Police on Wednesday night arrested Dr Ajay Taware, the suspended head of Sassoon General Hospital's forensic science department, in the 2022 kidney transplant case at Ruby Hall Clinic after securing his custody from Yerawada central jail earlier in the evening. Taware, who had been in jail since his arrest on May 27, 2024, as a co-accused in the blood sample swap case linked to the Porsche Taycan car crash on May 19 last year, was the head of the Regional Authorisation Committee (RAC) for organ transplant as well as the Sassoon Authority Committee and was the medical superintendent at the time when the transplant process took place and was completed at Ruby Hall Clinic. RAC is responsible for scrutinising organ transplant papers related to the proposed donor and the receiver, sent by the hospital where the transplant is to be performed, and clearing them on establishing all credentials. "We arrested Taware based on a five-member state health department inquiry committee's report of May 2022 that has indicted him and four others in RAC for misusing their position to aid kidney swap transplant based on bogus persons and forged documents," investigating officer ACP Ganesh Ingale told TOI. "The health department's then deputy director for Nashik region, Dr Raghunath Bhoye, headed the panel." Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar, when asked why it took so long (three years) for police to arrest Taware in this case, said, "We took a review of the case again, and post-consultation and study took the call to arrest him." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn IC Markets Đăng ký Undo On Thursday afternoon, Ingale and his team produced Taware before judicial magistrate first class SR Badve, who ordered the doctor's remand in police custody till June 2. "A total of nine swap kidney transplants were authorised and conducted during Taware's tenure as the RAC chief and police needed time to thoroughly investigate these matters," prosecutor Digambar Khopde told the court. The prosecutor submitted that Taware by virtue of being the head of RAC and the Sassoon Authority Committee had all the hospital bodies under his control and as a medical superintendent, he was well-versed with the administrative aspects and rules, processes and documentation work relating to organ transplant. "It was RAC's responsibility to see that the papers of the donor and the receiver were genuine and that no financial transaction was involved behind the transplant proposal. Still, RAC gave its go-ahead to the organ transplant based on bogus persons and forged papers," the prosecutor said. Khopade submitted that police needed time to investigate who else were part of the process to clear the swap kidney transplant, whether money was exchanged in the process, how RAC failed to notice the difference of age between the wife of the organ receiver and the woman who posed as the wife of the receiver at the time of interview before RAC, and other aspects.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Time of India
Pune doctor in Porsche row arrested in 2022 kidney racket case
Representative image PUNE: Pune police arrested on Wednesday night Dr Ajay Taware, the suspended head of Sassoon General Hospital's forensic science department, in the 2022 kidney transplant case at Ruby Hall Clinic after securing his custody from Yerawada Central Jail earlier the same evening, reports Vishwas Kothari & Asseem Shaikh. On Thursday afternoon, investigating officer ACP Ganesh Ingale produced Taware before judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) SR Badve, who ordered the doctor remanded in police custody till June 2. Taware, who was in jail since his arrest on May 27, 2024 as a co-accused in the blood sample swap case linked to the May 19, 2024 Porsche Taycan car crash, was the head of the Regional Authorisation Committee (RAC) for Organ Transplant as well as the Sassoon Authority Committee and was medical superintendent at the time when the transplant process took place and was completed at Ruby Hall Clinic. "We arrested Taware based on a five-member state health department inquiry committee's report of May 2022 that has indicted him and four others in the RAC for misusing their position to aid kidney swap transplant based on bogus persons and forged documents. The department's then deputy director for the Nashik region, Dr Raghunath Bhoye, headed the inquiry panel," Ingale said. Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar, when asked why it took so long (three years) for the police to arrest Taware in this case, said, "We undertook a review of the case again and post-consultation and study took the call to arrest him." With inputs from Gitesh Shelke
India Today
3 days ago
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- India Today
29 May 2025: Pune Porsche Case Doctor Tied to Kidney Racket, Tharoor Faces Congress Heat, Kamal Haasan Sparks Language Row
On today's News at 7, Prateek Lidhoo brings you the top stories of Wednesday, 28th May: Dr. Ajay Taware, already jailed in the Pune Porsche crash case, is now linked to an illegal kidney transplant racket in a major organ trafficking scandal. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor defends his remarks on surgical strikes amid backlash from his own party. Actor Kamal Haasan faces political heat and a police complaint in Karnataka after claiming Kannada was born from Tamil. Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Saifullah Kasuri resurfaces at a political rally in Pakistan following the deadly Pahalgam terror attack. And Elon Musk steps down from his advisory role under Donald Trump after publicly criticising the administration's flagship legislation. Stay tuned for your daily dose of sharp, credible news—only on News at 7, powered by India Today Podcasts. Produced by Prateek Lidhoo Sound mix by Aman Pal
News18
3 days ago
- News18
Pune Porsche Case Accused Doctor Now Arrested In Kidney Transplant Racket
Last Updated: Dr Ajay Taware, who is currently lodged at the Yerwada Central Jail, was arrested last year in connection to Pune Porsche case. Pune Police on Thursday arrested Sassoon General Hospital's former medical superintendent, Dr Ajay Taware in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket at a leading private hospital. Taware, who is currently lodged at the Yerwada Central Jail, was arrested last year for allegedly tampering with the blood samples of a 17-year-old boy accused of crashing a Porsche car into a motorbike in Pune's Kalyani Nagar and killing two persons. He has now been taken into custody by the city crime branch with the 2022 kidney transplant racket at the Ruby Hall Clinic, a leading private hospital here, reported news agency PTI. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Nikhil Pingale informed the doctor will be produced before the court today. In 2022, Taware was head of the Regional Authorisation Committee that approved kidney transplants. Jailed Doctor Arrested In Kidney Transplant Racket In May 2022, the Pune Police registered a case against 15 persons, including the managing trustee of the Ruby Hall Clinic and some of its employees, in connection with an alleged malpractice during a kidney transplant procedure in March that year. According to PTI, a woman from Kolhapur, who was allegedly promised Rs 15 lakh, fraudulently posed as the wife of a man who needed a transplant and donated her kidney in 2022 to a young woman patient. In turn, the young woman's mother donated her kidney to the man. Notably, such a swap involving two patients and their relatives is carried out when the patients cannot receive a kidney from their own kin because of a blood group mismatch. On March 29, 2022, four days after undergoing the transplant surgery at the Ruby Hall Clinic, the woman revealed her real identity after she had a dispute over money. (With agency inputs) First Published: May 29, 2025, 14:22 IST
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Indian Express
Dr Ajay Taware, accused in Pune Porsche car crash case, held in Ruby Hall Clinic kidney transplant ‘malpractice' case
Dr Ajay Taware, former head of forensic medicine department at the government-run Sassoon General Hospital and an accused in the Pune Porsche car crash case, was been arrested by the Pune city police on Thursday in connection with the alleged malpractices in a kidney transplant conducted at Ruby Hall Clinic in 2022. Taware, currently lodged in Yerwada Central jail for his alleged role in tampering with blood samples of the minor accused in Porsche crash case, was taken into custody from the jail and would be produced before a court in the afternoon, said a senior police officer. A First Information Report (FIR) in the kidney transplant malpractice case was lodged at the Koregaon Park police station on May 11, 2022, against 15 people, including senior management members and doctors of Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, for alleged malpractices in a kidney transplant in which a woman was allegedly presented as the organ receiver's wife after being promised Rs 15 lakh in return. The FIR was filed based on a complaint by Dr Sanjog Kadam, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Pune. The police said the case pertains to a kidney swap procedure, also known as paired kidney exchange, between the man from Moshi (in Pimpri Chinchwad) and the woman from Kolhapur posing as his wife, and a mother-daughter duo from Baramati. The police said the mother from Baramati gave her kidney to the Moshi resident, while her daughter was given the kidney of the Kolhapur woman. Kidney swapping is allowed after fulfilling all legal norms, but any financial transaction for doing so is illegal, said a police officer. The police said the transplant took place on March 24, 2022, after medical tests, documentation, verification interviews, scrutiny and final authorisation. But, on March 29, the Kolhapur woman alleged that she was promised Rs 15 lakh by the middlemen for donating her kidney at Ruby Hall Clinic. When she did not get the money that had been allegedly promised to her, she approached the Koregaon Park police station. The Ruby Hall Clinic administration also filed a complaint accusing the woman of concealing her identity. The Pune police authorities had referred the matter to the state health department after a preliminary inquiry. The health department submitted its inquiry report to the court in Pune. Based on the directions issued by the court, the case was registered at Koregaon Park police station under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, along with Indian Penal Code sections pertaining to cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. The FIR stated that the Moshi resident, his wife, the woman from Kolhapur, along with two middlemen, presented forged documents to the hospital. It also held Ruby Hall authorities and doctors responsible claiming that they did not thoroughly scrutinise the documents and sent them to the Regional Authorisation Committee at Sassoon General Hospital. The police said that Dr Taware was a member of this committee and allegedly played a role in the kidney transplant malpractice, and hence the doctor has been named an accused now. Earlier, the police had arrested two middlemen Ravi Rodge and Abhijit Gathne in this case. Ruby Hall Clinic's managing trustee Dr Purvez K Grant had told the Express, 'Ruby Hall has done nothing wrong. We are being unnecessarily harassed.' In April, the Maharashtra Medical Council suspended the medical licence of Dr Ajay Taware, for 'gross misconduct and breach of medical ethics', following his alleged involvement in Pune Porsche crash case. Dr Taware's role in the 2024 Porsche car crash Dr Taware has been charge-sheeted in the Porsche car crash case for allegedly playing a role in swapping the blood samples of the minor driver and others at the Sasoon hospital. Two IT engineers Aneesh Awadhiya and his friend Ashwini Koshta, both aged 24 and hailing from Madhya Pradesh, were killed after the speeding Porsche driven by a 17-year-old boy allegedly in an inebriated state hit their motorcycle around 2.30 am on May 19, 2024. An FIR was lodged on the same day against the minor car driver at the Yerwada police station. The police investigation revealed that when the minor driver, son of a prominent realtor, was taken to the government-run Sassoon Hospital after the accident for a medical examination, his blood sample was allegedly replaced with his mother's. The police then arrested minor's parents, Dr Taware, Dr Shrihari Halnor, the casualty medical officer at the time, Atul Ghatkamble, a morgue staff, and 'middlemen' Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, for their alleged role in swapping blood samples. During further investigation, a DNA report on August 9, 2024, confirmed that blood samples of the two friends of the minor driver were also swapped at the hospital. Both friends, who too are minors, were in the Porsche at the time of the accident. Police then arrested the fathers of both friends and another person in this case. Last month, the Maharashtra Medical Council had suspended the medical license of Dr Taware and Dr Halnor.
