Dr Manish Rawat 

and his associates were on the Central Bureau of

Investigation's radar and had been put under surveillance for over a
month, sources say. During this period, the probe agency's Anti-
Corruption Unit (AC-III) managed to unravel the complex chain that
the doctor had allegedly put in place to avert suspicion.
An analysis of calls revealed that on March 10, Rawat's aide, Avnesh
Patel, allegedly contacted a woman named Simran Kaur, a resident of
Kalyanpuri, and told her that her husband needed a spinal surgery for
his cervical problems. Kaur was instructed that if she deposited Rs
1.15 lakh in a bank account, the surgery would be done on priority,
sources said.
Similarly, on March 14, Patel allegedly managed payments of Rs
25,000 and Rs 30,000 from the attendants of patients named Madan
Lal and Shyamu and confirmed to Rawat the receipt of the money.
Another middleman, Manish Sharma, reportedly got Rs 30,000
transferred into the account of his associate named Kuldeep. This was
money paid as a bribe by the family of patient Syed Ali, the sources
added.
The surveillance and intercepted calls have also unravelled how Dr
Rawat used shell firms to convert the money to legitimate earnings
through Bareilly-based Ganesh Chandra, sources said. Chandra is
absconding.
On March 22, Chandra allegedly called Rawat and asked him to send
the money for the registration for the shell companies through Patel.
On March 23, Patel phoned Chandra to inform him that he would
transfer the amount as soon as some patients deposited bribe money,
the sources said. "Subsequently, Patel collected Rs 35,000 from a
patient named Gauri Shankar and deposited it in Chandra's State
Bank of India account. Chandra confirmed receiving the amount and
asked Patel for the remaining amount at the earliest," a source said.