The cops intercepted the application and got it cancelled, Joint Commissioner of Gurgaon Police Manjit Singh Ahlawat said.

The Kumar brothers — Amit and Jeevan — continue to be on the run, though reports coming in from Moradabad say Amit might have fled to Canada (see box alongside).

The police today took Jeevan’s wife Pooja and her parents R K Singal and Manju into custody for questioning.

According to Joint Commissioner Ahlawat, the trio said that Amit and Jeevan “do not have MBBS degrees”. The two are “probably only BMS passouts from some unrecognised university”, Jeevan’s family members have told the police.

“We are not sure about the extent of their (family members’) involvement in the racket but are holding them for interrogation,” Ahlawat said. The Singals live in Patparganj, east Delhi.

Ahlawat said only two of the five foreign nationals taken into custody have been released — both on medical grounds. No one else has left the country, as “they are witnesses in the case,” he said. The five were apprehended from the racket’s guesthouse in DLF phase-I during last Thursday night’s raids.

Meanwhile, separate medical and Income Tax teams carried out investigations at the racket’s illegal clinic in Sector 23, Palam Vihar, today. Gurgaon Police had earlier said they were kept in the dark about I-T raid at the clinic last year. On Tuesday, too, the I-T officials were tight-lipped.

According to information, the police are taking along with a medical team comprising doctors from the Gurgaon Civil Hospital. The team, police officials said, has seized some medicine and documents from the Sector-23 ‘clinic’. Chief Medical Officer S S Dalal said Jeevan and Amit Kumar could be prosecuted under the Drug Act if the investigators find they are not qualified doctors.

Mumbai calling
Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch today said their team is in Gurgaon to “verify the case details”. Deven Bharti, DCP (Crime Branch), Mumbai Police, said: “We have enough evidence and details of modus operandi to confirm that Dr Santosh Raut and Dr Amit Kumar are the same person. Our priority now is to understand their (racket’s) Delhi operations, and to ascertain if the people involved in the new case have any direct links to Maharashtra or Mumbai.”

Traced till now
* 2 pan cards, belonging to Amit Kumar.
* 12 bank accounts, under Amit and Jeevan’s names — accounts have been sealed.
* 3 luxury cars, said to be registered in Amit’s name.
* Not tracked: 8 more luxury cars registered in Amit’s name.

Is this man in Canada?
LUCKNOW: Moradabad Police have got information that kidney racket ringleader Amit Kumar has fled to Canada. The cops got the information from an inmate of Moradabad District Jail who shared the barrack with Upendra Kumar Aggarwal, the doctor arrested in last Thursday’s raids in Gurgaon. Aggarwal is one of the accused in the case.

Moradabad SSP Prem Prakash said the police are “looking into” the new information.