For the last few days newspapers in India are full of stories about a doctor who was buying kidneys of poor people for small sums of money and selling them to foreigners for vast sums of money. He is supposed to have carried out some 500 such transplants and netted hundreds of millions of rupees. It is not clear whether this fellow and his friends are actual doctors or some ayurvedic quacks. In India anyone can call himself a doctor and prescribe drugs without any control and the illiterate poor are unable to distinguish between genuine degrees and fake ones. He was investigated once before and the anaesthetist involved was arrested about eight years ago but things seemed to have been hushed up. It is obvious that vast sums of money changed hands and police and kleptocrats bribed. We will never know the full extent of the villainy but certainly this has been going on for at least a decade. Apparently the police in one state arrested a few of the accomplices which allowed the king pin, a Dr. Amit Kumar to escape the country. Strange how all the top villains get visas so easily while innocent people like us have to queue up hours and are humiliated before our passports are stamped. The government has issued Red Corner notices to the Interpol to apprehend this Dr. Kumar. In time he will be arrested somewhere and court proceedings started in that country to have him transferred to India. Our police and CBI officials will frequently travel abroad at tax payers expense to present evidence. Inevitably the evidence will be incomplete and shoddy and the trial will drag on. He may be freed by one court only to be arrested in another country and the tamasha will start again. Remember Quatrocchi? Meanwhile a good time will be had by all. At tax payers expense of course. What fun.