KANPUR, April 14 -- The man who ran Kanpur's illegal kidney transplant syndicate, coordinating surgical teams, managing logistics and overseeing procedures across multiple hospitals, was not a doctor. Rohit, arrested on Sunday night from Ghaziabad and brought to Kanpur on Monday, is Class 12 pass and had been posing as a physician throughout. Police have recovered multiple photographs of him wearing a stethoscope and apron, and in some images he appears inside an operation theatre alongside others during surgical procedures. Investigators believe his questioning will peel back layers that earlier arrests could not. SM Qasim Abidi, DCP, West, said Rohit's interrogation was underway and had already yielded significant leads. "Several police teams are questioning him and gathering important information about the kidney syndicate," he said. Ten persons have now been arrested in the case in total. The disclosure that Rohit was unqualified is not an isolated detail - it reflects the character of the entire operation. Police have established that the racket was run by unqualified and untrained individuals posing as medical professionals. Investigators believe this is directly linked to the deaths that have occurred among those who underwent procedures through the network. One death has already been confirmed, an audio recording recovered from the phone of arrested broker Shivam Aggarwal captured a conversation in which the death of a woman who had received an illegal transplant at a Kanpur hospital was discussed. She had subsequently been admitted to Max hospital in Delhi, where she passed away. Rohit, a Ghaziabad resident, had been the most wanted accused in the case since the racket was busted on 30 March. He was the man who assembled surgical teams for each procedure: flying in surgeons, anaesthetists and nursing staff from Lucknow and Noida, their identities known to him alone. Interrogation of those arrested earlier identified him as the operational head of the syndicate, and the police had announced a reward of Rs 25,000 for information leading to his arrest. Police teams had been searching for him continuously before he was picked up on Sunday night. The case had come to light on March 31 when police and health department officials raided Ahuja hospital in Masawanpur and subsequently found recipient Parul Tomar admitted at Priya hospital in Panki Kalyanpur, and donor Ayush Chaudhary from Bihar, at Medilife hospital in Awaas Vikas Kalyanpur. Earlier arrests had netted Dr Preeti Ahuja and her husband Dr Surjit Singh Ahuja, ambulance driver Shivam Aggarwal, and the operators of Medilife and Priya hospitals. Questioning of those arrested had led to the names of Rohit, Dr Vaibhav Mudgal, Dr Anurag, OT manager Mudassar Ali Siddiqui and Dr Afzal. Rewards of Rs 25,000 each remain in force against Afzal and Ali. Police are continuing raids to trace the remaining accused....