The Kerala High Court has admitted a writ petition seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged kidney transplantation racket and issued notices to the CBI, central and state governments. The writ petition was allowed for admission in High Court by Justice N. Krishnan Nair. The petition was admitted after the court heard the additional advocate general and the petitioner.

The notices were issued on a petition by P M Mohanan, a tribal, who alleged that kidney transplantations on a large-scale were being performed in the state and sought a CBI inquiry. He stated that he had not been compensated for donating his kidney.

According to the petitioner, he had donated his kidney to Safia, but no compensation was paid to him by the middlemen involved in the racket. He sought compensation from them.

The petitioner also sought to implead Dr K Mohammad Ali, former president, Indian Medical Association (IMA), who was appointed to probe the alleged kidney racket in a private hospital in Kozhikode, and IMA president Dr P T Cherian.

The writ petition has come at a time when the Kerala government maintained that it was speeding up the process to find out whether illegal kidney transplants were being done and that the tribals were lured for the same.