Kanpur (UP), April 6 Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested another person in the kidney transplant racket, after uncovering a sprawling network involving unqualified practitioners and with possible international connections, officials said on Monday.
Kanpur Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal said that he has written to the health authorities in Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Noida and Gaziabad, urging a crackdown on fake practitioners.
So far, eight people have been arrested in the case, including two operation theatre technicians who were earlier arrested for assisting in surgeries and arranging equipment.
A key suspect, Pervez alias Saifi, a resident of Meerut, has been detained in the kidney transplant racket and is being questioned, Lal told