In 1996,the Indian Parliament passed an Act to curb a flourishing export trade in kidneys that had earned India notoriety as'kidney bazaar'to the world.Recent events have shown that it doesn't seem to have worked,writes RANJIT DEVRAJ
WHEN India's human rights commission stepped in last week to order the state government in Punjab to produce a report on a flourishing trade in live human kidneys, it was a sign that laws concerning the organ trade were not working as they should.
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