Moneylender forces daily wage labourer to sell kidney in Sri Lanka, international racket busted

Police in Akola, India have busted an international kidney racket, by arresting a moneylender who had forced a daily wage labourer to travel to Sri Lanka to sell off a kidney, in order to repay a loan of Rs 20,000.

 

According to a report in an English language daily, incredibly, the kidney racket may be linked to farmer suicides in Vidarbha. A spate of farmer suicides in the region has alarmed the country, but part of the reason is the moneylenders' exploitation poor farmers and labourers.