Mother-son duo held for running illegal organ trade racket in Assam s Morigaon
A mother-son duo and their accomplice involved in an illegal kidney trade racket have been arrested in Assam. The accused used to lure poor villagers with a promise of paying Rs 4-5 lakh if they donated their kidney.
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UPDATED: July 13, 2021 06:54 IST
As many as 20 people of the village are believed to have sold off a kidney each.
The Assam Police has busted an illegal human organ trade racket in Morigaon district and arrested three persons, including a mother-son duo, in connection with the case.
The arrested woman and her accomplices were running an illegal kidney trade at Dakshin Dharamtul village in Central Assam’s Morigaon district. They lured poor villagers with a promise of paying Rs 4-5 lakh if they donated their kidney to some sick people and organisations.
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Resettlement of Reang tribal refugees begins in Tripura
The resettlement of Reang tribal refugees, sheltered in seven relief camps in northern Tripura after they fled Mizoram 24 years ago following ethnic strife in the adjoining State, started on Monday
| 20 April 2021 1:30 AM GMT
AGARTALA: The resettlement of Reang tribal refugees, sheltered in seven relief camps in northern Tripura after they fled Mizoram 24 years ago following ethnic strife in the adjoining State, started on Monday, more than 15 months after an agreement had been signed in Delhi, officials said.
Officials of Tripura government s Revenue and Relief Department said that according to the agreement signed in January last year by the Chief Secretaries of Mizoram, Tripura, MHA Joint Secretary Satyendra Garg and the representatives of the refugees in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, around 35,000 tribal refugees from 5,400 families of the Reang tribal community would be resettled in different district