Giving a clean chit to doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) who were accused of ‘stealing the kidney’ of a young patient, by the patient’s father, the Institute’s medical board stated that the patient Deepika Chandra had in fact a rare medical condition. The board which submitted its report on Thursday noted: “This is a rare case of congenital fusion anomaly of bilateral kidneys.”

“The huge enlargement of left kidney displaced the right kidney towards the right side and hence on all pre-operative imaging it appeared as a normal right kidney. However, further investigation showed that there was no right kidney.”