How fake documents helped cover up Hiranandani kidney racket

Just like the relationships between the donors and recipients in the kidney transplant racket even the addresses provided by some of them seem to be fake Donors and recipients have submitted fake documents and address proof as found by midday when this reporter visited three addresses of donors and recipients who are currently under the scanner of the Health Department in the Hiranandani kidney transplant racketAlso read Absconding mastermind of Bombay Hospital kidney racket heldRasilaben Kathiriyarsquos address was incorrect and her sister Harsha no longer stays at her addressThe Directorate of Health Services DHS is currently investigating two more illegal kidney transplants conducted in Hiranandani HospitalAlso read Minister orders probe into lapses by state officialmidday got access to three addresses of one donor and two recipients allegedly involved in the racket and visited them on Saturday But two of the three addresses were fake The third address was of a donor who no longer stays there As per the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994 the hospital should have sent the documents to police for verification and procured an NOC before going ahead with the surgeriesHarshaben Kevadiya Rasilabenrsquos sister used to stay in this building at VirarThe transplant authorisation committee of the hospital also provided the seal of their approval on the fake documents without checking them In the transplant authorisation committee meeting held on April 13 Dr Anurag Naik medical director of the hospital and chairperson of the committee approved the transplant of Dimple Manak Himmatramka As per the report her brother Sudarkumar Kunjbihari Roongata lsquoout of love and affection towards herrsquo decided to donate his kidney But initial the DHS report states they werenrsquot siblingsDimple Manak Himmatramka and Sudarkumar Kunjbihari Roongata arenrsquot siblingsDr Mukesh Shete consultant nephrologist from the hospital who was also arrested along with four doctors gave his seal of approval on the addresses and profiles of Dimple and SudarkumarRead Story Hiranandani kidney racket CEO and medical director guilty of negligenceldquoThe transplant authorisation committee which is responsible for checking the facts approves the transplants depending on the documents submitted to them But there is no mechanism to check them though they take Rs 2025 lakh for kidney transplantsrdquo said Suresh Gupta a whistleblower who provides help to victims of the kidney racketDimple had provided an address in Kandivli E in a housing society at Thakur Complex There were 41 buildings in the society but none had a resident of the nameThe DHS is also probing a woman named Rasilaben Kathiriya who received a kidney from Harshaben Kevadiya who claimed to be her sister But DHSrsquo investigation has shown that though their blood test proved they are siblings the documents submitted were incorrectldquoThere are also loopholes in the documents submitted in the case of Rasilaben Their blood test shows that they are siblings but the documents to support their claims are incorrect so are their addressesrdquo said a senior officer from DHSKevadiya provided an address as Rushmen Nagar Virar But midday found out she had left the building more than a year back ldquoThey used to stay here but left the house more than a year back Now no one resides in hererdquo said a local resident The recipient Kathiriya also gave an incorrect address in Krida Bhavan near ChowpattyBK Mahadeshwar senior police officer of Powai police station said ldquoWe arenrsquot investigating the two cases but have submitted documents procured from the hospital to DHSrdquo