Police scan calls of arrested doctors

MUMBAI: The Powai police are scanning the call records of the five doctors arrested in the illegal kidney transplant racket at Dr LH Hiranandani hospital to find

MUMBAI: The Powai police are scanning the call records of the five doctors arrested in the illegal kidney transplant racket at Dr LH Hiranandani hospital to find out how long the accused were in touch with each other and the intervals between each call.

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“There are many angles which are being investigated to establish that the doctors were in touch with the accused. We are checking their call records,” said a source.

So far, 14 people have been arrested in the case, which was registered on July 14 at Powai police station under various sections of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. While the five doctors will be in police custody until August 13, the rest are in judicial custody.

According to the claims of whistle-blower Sundar Singh, he was approached by one of the arrested accused in 2014

Three of the arrested doctors, Singh said, came in contact with him a few months before he was operated on in March this year at the hospital.

Apart from this, recipient Brijkishore Jaiswal, in the present FIR, has told the police that he too was in touch with the arrested doctors and they were aware that the donor, Shobha, was not his wife. They allegedly went ahead with the procedure despite the knowledge.

Apart from the five doctors, the Powai police have arrested Bijendra Hiralal Bisen alias Sandeep, 42, Kishen Brijkishore Jaiswal, 28, Iqbal Ahmed Mohammad Siddiqui Khan, 49, Bharatbhushan Baldevhari Sharma, 62, Nilesh Vitthal Kamble, 36, Khwaja Shamshuddin Patel, 66, Yusufsa Bismilla Divan, 45, Brijkishore Laxman Jaiswal, 48, Shobhana Thakur alias Shobha alias Rekha Devi, 42. While Kishen, Shobha, Brijkishore and Nilesh have got bail, the rest are in judicial custody.