Man kills 4-year-old to sell his organs after watching video on making money quickly

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A 27-year-old man was arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur for allegedly killing a four-year-old boy, a relative of his, with the intention to sell the boy’s organs, the police said on Monday (November 9, 2026).

According to the police, the man, who works as an agricultural labourer, got the idea after watching a video that purportedly suggested organ sale as a way to make money quickly.

The accused, Basudev Korwa, alias Tangnu, lives in Sanna village. Korwa’s cousin, Ramjeet Ram, 36, also lives there with his wife and their children. On November 5, after getting Ramjeet Ram inebriated, Korwa allegedly lured one of his sons with chicken and fed him liquor. The accused is then alleged to have taken the boy to his hut, where he slit the child’s throat. According to the police, he then and removed the boy’s organs, including the kidneys.

Jashpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Lal Umed Singh said the accused buried the body at a different site after extracting the organs, which he kept in a plastic bag.

The following day, the boy’s father complained to the police about his son’s disappearance, and villagers mounted a search. The body, wrapped in a blanket, was discovered by a villager nearly 500 metres away from the field where both the victim and the accused lived in separate huts. A witness also told the police that the child had been seen with Korwa.

Upon his arrest, the police learnt that Korwa, who had received little formal education, had no understanding of how organ transplants worked and did not have a ready buyer.

Mr. Singh said that through the content the accused had consumed online, he was convinced that there would be a “buyer from Delhi” who would come and buy the organs he had supposedly “preserved” in the plastic bag.

Explaining the chain of events, the SSP said that Korwa, in a bid to make more money than the few hundred rupees he earned daily, had joined some groups on a chatting app that discussed ways to make money. However, all of the conversation was in English, which he did not understand.

“What came to his aid was an artificial intelligence [AI] assistant embedded in the chatting app that understood and replied in Hindi. As he started interacting with the app, it started redirecting him to other sites, which would open in the browser. One such video was about organ sales fetching good money,” said another senior police officer, adding that they were yet to find out the exact video that the accused watched because he does not have a registered profile on the streaming site and no saved browsing history.

Even as Korwa learned about the organ sale, he asked more questions to the AI assistant in the chat app, framing them in a manner that concealed his intent. "Yet the assistant issued warnings that organ sale was prohibited in India and that there were laws against it. Still, the accused went ahead with the plan. He chose the boy who called him ‘chachu [uncle]’ and trusted him,” said the officer.

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