Updated On: 29 May, 2025 11:01 AM IST | Pune | mid-day online correspondent
Taware was arrested last year and is currently under police custody at Yerwada Central Jail after being accused of tampering with the blood samples of a 17-year-old boy who was accused of crashing a Porsche into a motorbike that killed two people in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar. He is now taken into custody in connection with the 2022 kidney scam
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Dr Ajay Taware accused being the head of the Regional Authorisation Committee that approved kidney transplants in 2022. Representation Pic.
Pune’s Sassoon General Hospital’s former medical superintendent Dr Ajay Taware was arrested by police on Thursday in connection with a kidney transplant racket involving a well known private hospital, officials said.
Taware was arrested last year and is currently under police custody at Yerwada Central Jail after being accused of tampering with the blood samples of a 17-year-old boy who was accused of crashing a Porsche into a motorbike that killed two people in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar.
According to police the crime branch of the city has now taken him into custody in connection with the 2022 kidney transplant racket at the Ruby Hall Clinic, a leading private hospital, reported PTI.