KANPUR: While notices were served to some reputed Delhi hospitals whose names cropped up during interrogation of members of a kidney transplant racket, an increasing number of donors are coming forward with complaints against the arrested gang members.

SP South, Raveena Tyagi, said on Sunday that names of reputed doctors and coordinators from the renowned Fortis, PSRI and Apollo hospitals of Delhi had surfaced in the case and notices were issued to the managements of these hospitals. Clarification has been sought on the status of the employees, including doctors and coordinators, whose names surfaced during interrogation of donors and the arrested gang members. She added that the managements of these hospitals have also been asked to provide the details of kidney transplants done in the last few years. It will be investigated whether all required norms were being followed for the transplants or not.

During the probe, it became known that the six persons arrested from Kanpur used to coordinate with one Sunita at PSRI and Mithun at Fortis hospital of Delhi.

The police said that about eight more donors have contacted them, and a few among them were willing to become a witness in the case.

SP South said that one such donor is from Rae Bareli, who had identified Gaurav Mishra, one of the gang members, who had lured him.

The arrested persons, who used to operate as middlemen, were identified as Gaurav Mishra of Lakhimpur Khiri; T Rajkumar Rao of Kolkata; Shailesh Saxena of Badarpur, New Delhi; Saboor Ahmad of Kakori, Lucknow; Vicky Singh of Panki, Kanpur and Shamshad Ali of Chowk, Lucknow. (TNN)