Order of the Allahabad High Court in the matter of Ranjan Srivastava Vs Union of India.

The petitioner had requested the court for direction to enable and make it lawful for him to exercise "his supreme right regarding his life and body whereby he makes/performs Live Body Donation(Jeevit Deh Daan) of his human body and of all his living organ and tissues for the desperate and suffering needy by walking into an operation theater of a suitable facility at a suitable time and for making multiple gifts of life to desperately suffering and dying individuals".

The Allahabad High Court while dismissing the plea stated that the Parliament had passed the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 to provide for the regulation of removal, storage and transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human organs and tissues and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Section 9 of the enactment stipulated restrictions on removal and transplantation of human organs and tissues or both.