The Crime Branch investigating the organ trade rackets in the state has revealed a shocking information that there is a high-level conspiracy behind this crime and many middlemen are involved in it. The investigating team has registered an FIR against the middle-men and the crime. As per the FIR registered by the investigating team at the Crime Branch headquarters following a preliminary enquiry, four cases have been filed in this crime.

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 The FIR was submitted before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Thrissur last week. The investigation says the root cause as the preference of patients who need organ transplants and their families for living donors. The charges for cheating, criminal conspiracy, public servant concealing design to commit offence which is his duty to prevent and violation of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act (THOTA), 1994 concerned IPC sections were invoked against the criminals. However, no person has been arraigned accused in the cases so far. 

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 It is reported that 2,895 live donations have taken place from 2017 to 2020,comparatively meager 205 deceased donor organ transplantation took place in the state. Kerala Network for Organ Sharing (KNOS) says the predominent factor that prevents the deceased organ donation programme from taking off is the widely held belief that the body of a deceased person is sacred and should be buried/cremated intact, as people cutting across religions believe in afterlife. 

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