India, Nov. 2 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday came to the rescue of a 3-year-old child, a US citizen, in critical need of a donor liver by directing the authorisation committee constituted under the Organ Transplantation Act to urgently process his parents' request for a donation from a distant cousin even though relevant rules permit that a foreign citizen can only receive an organ in India from a near relative.

A bench of justices AS Bopanna and PS Narsimha on Wednesday directed the family of the child to move an application before the Committee directing the latter to process the same with the necessary documents the same day.

The child is currently admitted at the paedeatric intensive care unit of Gurugram-based Medanta hospital w...