Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Human organ trafficking with special reference to women and the legal perspectives

Anshika Juneja

Abstract :

 Organ trade is the trade involving inner human organs(heart, liver, kidneys, etc.) for organ transplantation. According to WHO, an estimated of 10,000 black market operations involving purchased human organs takes place annually. Moreover, this amounts up to only 10 percent of the global demand; organ trade has been 

termed as the ‘crime of the 21st century’. India has always been at the center of this trade the current law to combat 
this ‘Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994’ has undergone many amendments but lacks in implementation. IRAC 
Analysis including jurisprudential aspect and inference using secondary sources such as books and journals both online 
and offline ,has been drawn on the case Shyam Sundar Prasad v State of Bihar (now Jharkhand)
 

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Anshika Juneja Human organ trafficking with special reference to women and the legal perspectives Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 4 April 2015


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