Overview

• Dr Ajay Taware, already lodged at Yerwada Central Jail for tampering with blood samples in the 2024 Porsche crash case, was produced before a Pune court on Thursday and remanded until June 2, 2025, on charges related to the 2022 kidney transplant racket.
• Police have charged 17 individuals in the organ trafficking network, which investigators allege carried out nine paired kidney swaps using forged identities and false kinship claims.
• Taware led the Regional Authorisation Committee in 2022 when Ruby Hall Clinic approved transplant procedures without properly vetting donor documentation.
• A state health department inquiry panel indicted Taware and four other committee members in May 2022 for misusing their positions to green-light illicit organ transplants.
• The Maharashtra Medical Council has suspended Taware’s medical licence and those of other implicated doctors following revelations of evidence tampering and organ trafficking.