She wanted to donate her kidney to a friend, a serving army officer. Her family opposed it and even got the government to intervene. But 48-year-old Varsha Sharma from Rajasthan successfully petitioned the Karnataka high court to get the required clearances for the unrelated organ transplant.

Bringing to end deliberations that went on for nearly four months, Varsha underwent a surgery on Friday (July 27), during which her kidney was transplanted into Col Pankaj Bhargava at Columbia Asia hospital.

Anil Srivatsav, himself a kidney donor and founder of Gift of Life Adventure Foundation, was in touch with Col Bhargava for the past one year and was instrumental in Varsha taking her fight to court. He hopes the case will make the state authorisation committee more open to look into unrelated organ transplants.

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