A court in Mumbai today remanded L H Hiranandani Hospital chief executive officer and four doctors, arrested in connection with an alleged kidney transplant racket, in police custody till August 14.

Hospital CEO Sujit Chatterjee, medical director Anurag Naik, Mukesh Shetye, Mukesh Shaha and Prakash Shetye were arrested yesterday under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act on the basis of a report by the Director of State Health Services Department, which named them during the inquriy.

Police told the court of Local Metropolitan Magistrate, Ashwini Lokhande in Andheri that the arrested doctors were also attached with other hospitals in the city and that they wanted to probe if the racket was being run in other hospitals as well.

Police also wanted to find out if there was any exchange of money among the doctors, agents and donors in the alleged racket. Police are also studying the Call Detail Record of the doctors and the racketeers arrested earlier.