Man seeking to sell kidney to ease penury defrauded by fake buyers

The frauds made him borrow 22.95L from loan apps to pay them for pre-op tests

- Megha Sood

MUMBAI: Unable to make ends meet in the city, a 45-year-old householder decided to sell his kidney, and got duped.

Prashant Praful Nagvekar lives with his family that comprises his wife, son, mother and one brother, in a tiny flat in a slum rehabilitation building at Dahisar (East). While his brother does odd jobs and contributes to the household expenses, Nagvekar is the main provider. For the last 10 years he has been working as an office boy at Indocity Infotech Ltd in Andheri East and where he gets ₹15,000 in hand. Of this, ₹10,000 goes towards the rent every month. Nagvekar, over the years, began to realise the extent of his financial precarity. His 10-year-old son needed to go to a good school, be fed, and clothed properly. Nagvekar also wanted to buy a house hoping it will save him the monthly rent. A loan was not an option—he had seen people around him get trapped in long-term loans. He asked around, spoke to people, and figured that selling an organ might get him a windfall and end all his financial troubles.