India, April 1 -- KANPUR Behind Kanpur's illegal kidney transplant racket -in which an estimated 40 to 50 procedures were carried out across private hospitals over five years - was an organised syndicate of five doctors, each assigned a specific role. Operating with'corporate precision', together, they controlled everything - from arranging donors, trapping recipients to flying in surgical teams at places where the procedures were undertaken and ensuring no medical records were ever left behind.

The police, who have so far arrested six people including three hospital operators, are now on the lookout for five doctors they believe ran the entire operation.

The five, all believed to be between 35 and 40 years of age, are identified by inv...