Overview

• The Madurai Bench constituted a Special Investigation Team led by IG Prem Anand Sinha, with the superintendents of Nilgiris, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore and Madurai as members.
• The court directed the team to register an FIR on the Namakkal Chief Medical Officer’s complaint and the state inquiry’s findings and to submit a progress update within a month.
• Judges rejected the state’s claim of a statutory bar under transplant law and ordered support from the Director General of Police and the Director of Medical and Rural Health Services.
• The Health Department was told to produce the formal order canceling Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College’s renal transplant license for the court record.
• The state-appointed panel reported forged approvals, named brokers Anandan and Stanley Mohan, and led to cancellations at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan and Cethar Hospital, with reports of FIRs using bank and phone data.