Mohali kidney racket: HC grants interim protection from arrest to Indus hospital director

The petitioner’s counsel argued that Bedi had been named in the probe based on some confessional statements from those arrested and that the petitioner as well as the competent committee, which gives nod for transplants, were victims of fraud played against them

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday granted interim protection from arrest to Indus International Hospital director Dr Surinder Pal Singh Bedi in a kidney transplant racket reported in Mohali’s Dera Bassi.

Earlier, the hospital director’s plea was dismissed by a lower court on May 6. He was heading the committee which clears kidney transplant cases. (Shutterstock)

The high court bench of justice Karamjit Singh, while posting the matter for May 29, ordered that he not be arrested till the next date of hearing, one of Bedi’s lawyers, Gautam Dutt, confirmed. The petitioner’s counsel argued that Bedi had been named in the probe based on some confessional statements from those arrested and that the petitioner as well as the competent committee, which gives nod for transplants, were “victims of fraud” played against them. The detailed order is awaited.

Earlier, Bedi’s plea was dismissed by a lower court on May 6. He was heading the committee which clears transplant cases. The scam had come to light after a donor levelled allegations of not paying him the promised ₹10 lakh in lieu of his kidney against a private person.