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Illegal organs trade?

Ashok Kumar

NOIDA: The post-mortem report on the bones recovered from near a house in Sector 31 here this past week has strongly hinted at an illegal human organs trade angle behind the gruesome killings of little children. The post-mortem was conducted at the Government Civil Hospital here.

The Chief Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr. Vinod Kumar, said on Thursday that kneecaps from all the skeletal remains were missing. "Strangely the kneecaps of all the 17 victims were missing. Since kneecaps are also transplanted, the possibility of a human organs trade cannot be ruled out."

Further, he added, only 4-5 bones of the torso were found but it could not be established whether they were from the same body or different bodies.

"Moreover, the bodies appeared to have been cut up by skilled hands. The person who cut up the bodies may not necessarily be a doctor, but was skilled enough not to damage the vital parts," he said.

"Since the human organs trade is not so prevalent in India, a foreign hand cannot be ruled out, though that is for the investigators to substantiate it," the doctor said.

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