No evidence of organ trade in Nithari killings: Govt

New Delhi, Mar 16: The government today said no evidence has been found so far to connect Nithari incident in Noida with the trade of human organs.

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss informed this to the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today.

However, he admitted that the Delhi Police has registered six cases of illegal trade of human organs during the past four years of which five cases were registered in 2004 and one in 2006.

In another reply, Dr Ramadoss said that enactment of a legislation for registration and regulation of Clinical Establishment was a priority of the government. However, since health is a state subject, maintenance of registry of hospitals and the diagnostic centres was the responsibility of the state government, he informed.

UNI