Kerala HC Dismisses Lawyer's Plea To Ban Organ Donation Even As A Life Saving Exercise [Read Order]

Ashok Kini

12 Feb 2019 4:00 PM IST

“The petitioner could not refer to any provisions of law, which prohibits as opposed regulate, the transplantation of human organs to save the life of another or to provide a working organ for dysfunctional one.”

The Kerala High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by a lawyer seeking prohibition of donation of organs such as liver, kidneys, heart etc., even as a life saving exercise. Before the bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar, Advocate VN Mohan Raj, who appeared in person, urged that harvesting of human organs from a brain-dead...

Kerala HC Dismisses Lawyer's Plea To Ban Organ Donation Even As A Life Saving Exercise [Read Order]

Ashok Kini

“The petitioner could not refer to any provisions of law, which prohibits as opposed regulate, the transplantation of human organs to save the life of another or to provide a working organ for dysfunctional one.”

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