Pakistan Authorities Nab Trio Behind Shocking Spinal Fluid Scam – Asia News

Pakistan Authorities Nab Trio Behind Shocking Spinal Fluid Scam – Asia News

The Shocking Tale of a Spinal‑Fluid Scam in Pakistan

A Pie‑cutter Kind of Crime

A group of shady medical jerks made a fortune by cat‑snatching spinal fluid from unsuspecting women in Punjab’s eastern Hafizabad district. Police say the gang convinced victims it was a “required medical procedure” to run a program that offers free bride‑gifts—or, as the victims put it, dowry…for free!
The twist? The fluid was not meant for any legitimate science lab but was flung into the black‑market skein for bone‑marrow transplants.

Who Got Caught?

  • Five suspects were seized after family members tipped off the authorities.
  • A local government hospital cleaner—the middleman in the shady deal—was also taken into custody.
  • According to the police, the gang had convinced at least 10 women in the area to undergo the dubious extraction and sold the fluid to this cleaner.
  • Abdul Majeed, a Hafizabad investigator, spilled the beans: “They bragged about taking fluid from 10 women and hoping the market will pay.”Muhammad Imran, another officer, echoed that the probe is still in motion.

    A Bigger Picture

  • Jang, Pakistan’s top Urdu newspaper, reported the operation might have revolved around 90 impoverished women, many reportedly left crippled afterward.
  • The country has long been a magnet for illegal transplant scams—last year, police nabbed a team for feturing kidney transplants for two Omani nationals.
  • In Pakistan, organ donation is strictly limited to close kin, and any buying or selling of organs is fog‑clutched outlawed.
  • Bottom Line

    A brutal reminder that medical scams can turn a simple surgery into a nightmare for victims—especially when the doctors in the alley wear the mask of a charity program and a “wedding dowry” promise. Stay on guard, folks: you’ve got to ask, “What’s truly in this program?”