Bdnews24.com . Dhaka
The home ministry has ordered authorities to include the kidney trading case in the list of sensational cases.
Signed by deputy secretary Smriti Rani Das, the order was forwarded to the inspector general of Crime Investigation Department on September 21.
The case was filed with Kalai police station on August 29 in line with the Organ Transplantation Act 1999, section 10(1) and Bangladesh Penal Code 326/307/420.
Some unscrupulous brokers have long been manipulating the underprivileged in Jaipurhat into selling their kidneys for money. A recent media report said that over 200 poor people in Kalai upazila had already sold their organs.
Following the report, the police have arrested six people including the ring leaders from Jaipurhat, Bagerhat and Dhaka. Three of them admitted to their crimes.
On September 19, the High Court ordered the government to form a committee to investigate this and submit the report within 15 days.
Before that on September 11, the parliamentary standing committee on health ministry recommended that the authorities should seek out the illegal kidney traders and act against them.
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