Hospital workers in Uttar Pradesh sell human organs to tantriks

Tantriks are those who practice black magic for which they need human body parts and hospitals in Uttar Pradesh are sources for these nefarious activities. This has come to light tanks to a sting operation carried out by a team of anti-corruption activists.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 5 July 2015.

As per the revelations, hospital workers in morgues sell the body parts to tantriks who perform black magic. The workers assist the doctors in the post mortems and then go about their activities. The most sought after organs are the liver and the heart.
A cost of a liver can be in the region of Rs 5,000 while a heart could go for around Rs 20,000.
The authorities have now issued strict instructions that no human body must be opened or closed for post-mortem unless police and doctors are present.
It is unethical and illegal because there are procedures involved and consent of the family has to be taken when an organ is removed from a body, usually for transplantation.
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Exorcism and black magic in Kerala

The government of Kerala has plans to bring forward a legislation to put an end to black magic and exorcism and also launch a massive awareness campaign against superstition because of increasing incidences of such practices. It is in the wake of recurrence of tragic sorcery cases that the government has drawn up plans to bring in legislation to ban these gory rituals.
It would probably be a bill drawn up on the lines of the Anti-Superstition bill in Maharashtra.
It seems in October last two persons had carried out black magic on a 21-year-old woman in order to get rid of a physical ailment. The victim had burn marks on her body and it is believed that she had been tortured in the course of the rituals.
The rituals included burning camphor on her palms and keeping a bunch of 50 lit incense sticks under her chin after which she was asked to inhale the smoke.
The girl was a native of Vadasserikkara in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district and the two persons involved in this heinous activity were her uncle and his son-in-law and the police have arrested both and have been remanded to judicial custody.