Kanpur: Police have issued a lookout notice against four key doctors accused in Kanpur’s illegal kidney transplant racket. They are also probing their finances and conducting raids in Meerut, Noida and Dehradun.Four doctors — Dr Afzal, Dr Rohit, Dr Vaibhav, and Dr Anurag — linked to nursing homes in Meerut, Noida and Delhi are now wanted in the illegal kidney transplant racket. Police teams are searching for them in Meerut, Dehradun, and Noida, with Delhi-NCR police and other agencies assisting in the probe.The health department on Thursday revoked the licences of Ahuja Hospital and Priya Hospital. These hospitals have been given three days to remove all their equipment. A day before this, Med Life Hospital had been sealed.Meanwhile, the main patient, a 33-year-old kidney recipient, and a 24-year-old donor from Kanpur’s GSVM Medical College to Lucknow’s Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute for better treatment. The Medical College principal cited insufficient resources and the case’s sensitivity as reasons for the referral.A total of 10 people have been found involved in the racket. Of these, five doctors and one broker have been arrested. The crime branch has also arrested two OT technicians from Dr Rohit’s team. According to the police, Dr Afzal is the operator of Alfa Hospital in Meerut. Dr Vaibhav and Dr Anurag alias Amit are also residents of Meerut. To trace Dr Rohit, the call details of broker Shivam Kada are being scrutinised.Meerut CMO Dr Ashok Katariya says a complaint was received against Alfa Hospital on Nov 26, 2025, alleging a patient was admitted through a broker. The health department filed a police complaint and suspended the hospital’s licence two days later.However, on Jan 2, 2026, the police investigation could not confirm the allegations. Following this, the hospital administration applied for licence restoration on Jan 19. Acting on the application, the hospital’s licence was restored on Jan 21.Police on Tuesday claimed to have uncovered an alleged illegal kidney transplant racket operating through private hospitals in the city and arrested six people, including a doctor couple, three other doctors and an ambulance operator. Commissioner of Police Raghubir Lal said the racket appeared to have links extending beyond Kanpur to Lucknow, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Nepal.Preliminary investigation suggests that around 40 to 50 kidney transplants may have been carried out through the network in different private hospitals in the city. The police are currently raiding and searching for two more doctors involved in the case. The probe has linked seven more hospitals, one in Lucknow and six in Kanpur, to the racket.Police revealed that Shivam Agrawal, from Devi Sahaynagar in Kalyanpur, would dress up as a doctor to deceive people. He was in touch with Dr Rohit, Dr Preeti Ahuja from Ahuja Hospital, and Dr Surjeet Ahuja. Shivam got in touch with a Dehradun-based MBA student struggling financially, and convinced him to sell his kidney for Rs 6 lakh.
