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A teacher from West Bengal’s Nadia territory successful the Krishnanagar country was allegedly arrested successful a fake organ trafficking lawsuit aft donating his mother’s eyes pursuing her death.
The teacher said that they had impervious of donating the deceased’s eyes with anterior consent. The teacher got bail on Thursday (February 12, 2026) and resumed his duties arsenic a Booth Level Officer (BLO) successful the ongoing Special Intensive Revision work successful West Bengal on Friday (February 13, 2026).
On February 8, Amir Chand Sheikh’s parent Rabiya Bibi passed distant and arsenic per her past wish, her son, Mr. Sheikh, called the aesculapian squad to donate her eyes.
When the aesculapian squad arrived to medically region the corneas of the deceased Ms. Bibi, locals alleged an organ trafficking ungraded and protested. A neighbour filed a written ailment with the section police.
Along with Mr Sheikh, four other household members were besides arrested, including 3 women, each of whom spent 3 days successful jail.
The arrests brought monolithic criticism. On Thursday evening (February 12, 2026), erstwhile they got bail astatine the section court, the household of 5 were welcomed by many locals and neighbours.
“I ne'er asked my parent to donate her eyes. She was inspired connected her own when she realised that unsighted radical would be capable to spot if she donated her eyes and wanted us to bash the donation after her death,” Mr. Sheikh told reporters aft being released from jail. He added that if radical get harassed for donating organs with consent, this volition make a consciousness of fear, which in crook volition hamper voluntary organ donation, depriving patients of a 2nd accidental astatine life.
During his arrest on Monday (February 9, 2026), Mr. Sheikh alleged that radical did not similar his societal enactment and were falsely accusing him of organ trafficking and maligning his family’s name.
After the arrests, the section Inspector-in-Charge of Krishnanagar Kotwali Police Station connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) said that they got information on the nighttime of February 8 that Mr. Sheikh and his household had “sold” their deceased mother’s eyes.
“We got a ceremonial ailment and made the arrests. They were not capable to produce immoderate proper documents. Organ trafficking is simply a superior crime, and we are presently investigating each possibilities and collecting evidence. They person gotten bail. We volition proceed our investigations into the matter,” IC Amalendu Biswas told The Hindu on Friday (February 13, 2026).
However, activists from Ganadarpan (a salient NGO that works in organ donation and advocacy) who conducted the donation work confirmed that they person a signed pledge from the deceased Ms. Bibi from October 17, 2024, where she had consented to donate her eyes aft her death.
“In specified cases, the consent of the household is the most important according to the law. All of them agreed to donate. Then wherefore did the constabulary marque arrests? Mr. Sheikh was lone released connected bail; we request that the lawsuit against him beryllium squashed due to the fact that determination was nary wrongdoing here,” Sudipta Saha Roy, wide caput of Ganadarpan, said connected Friday (February 13, 2026).
He further added that the donated cornea of the deceased Ms. Bibi has already been taken to the Murshidabad Government Medical College and is acceptable to connection a caller imaginativeness to galore patients successful need.
