Madras High Court aids Bangladeshi boy in receiving kidney donation from his mother

The Madras High Court has come to the aid of a minor boy from Bangladesh by permitting him to undergo renal transplantation in Chennai with the kidney to be donated by his mother. The court criticised the human organ transplant authorisation committee in Chennai for not having granted the permission after raising doubts over the relationship between the child’s mother and her husband. Justice G.R. Swaminathan set aside the rejection order passed by the authorisation committee on April 2, 2026, and held that it “suffers from misdirection in law and utter non-application of mind.” The judge directed the committee to forthwith permit A. Monika Rani Saha to donate one of her kidneys to her son A. Atonu Saha and allow the surgery to take place at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai.