A visually impaired law student from Delhi has alleged that an acquaintance attempted to coerce him into donating a kidney during a stopover in Mumbai. The student claims he was taken to a hospital in Andheri under suspicious circumstances before being abandoned near Dadar

The party mouthpiece 'Saamana' editorial, titled "The Disgrace of the Soil", described the incident not just as a crime, but as a "stain on the conscience of a state that calls itself progressive"