A man from Pakistan stooped to the lowest levels of morality by convincing doctors to remove his wife's kidney so he could sell it and buy a used tractor.

Safia Thaheem Bibi's discovered the missing kidney when she returned to the hospital for an unrelated problem. Upon her return home, the suspicious Bibi confronted her husband and found he received $1,100 for her kidney and bought a used tractor to use in his rice fields.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, Shakeel Ahmed if convicted of unlawfully removing a kidney could face up to 10 years in prison. However, the case is still at the investigation level and the lawmakers say they need to carry out more medical tests to ascertain if her kidney was removed after her marriage or before.

Ahmed is currently on bail in connection with the case, along with a number of his relatives. All insist they are innocent. Organ donations are unregulated in Pakistan.

Transplant specialists estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 live kidneys are sold in Pakistan every year.