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India’s Medical Council will be investigating three doctors who were caught on film offering to amputee the healthy limbs of beggars in order to “help” them get more donations from passerbys. The bizarre scenes were secretly filmed by the CNN-IBN news channel as part of their attempt to expose an India-wide network of what they call “beggar mafia dons” who force beggars to hand over the money they earn on their turf. According to this report the mafia routinely maims beggars in order to maximize revenue. On one of the filmed scenes a doctor asks for 10,000 rupees (approximately $215) to amputate a lower leg from an otherwise healthy beggar. He then suggests chopping three fingers from the man’s hand because, he advises him, “if there are two beggars in front of you and one of them is lame, you will give the money to the lame beggar.” (Reuters)