Ambala, April 12: A local court on Saturday ordered that the three bank accounts of the alleged kidney racket kingpin Amit Kumar in Canada be frozen.

Special CBI Magistrate Abdul Majid passed the order on an application of the agency, which pointed out that he had three bank accounts in the Royal Bank of Canada.

The CBI sought the action, saying the money that came from the transplantation of kidneys might have been deposited in these accounts.

The agency will now have to take up the matter with the government for taking up the issue with authorities in Canada.

Defence counsel Amit Gupta said the CBI was "unnecessarily harassing" his client, as the bank accounts in Canada were not operated since a long time.

Two of the accounts were being operated by Kumar himself and the third by his manager Michael Becker.

The court allowed another application of the CBI seeking medical examination of an accused Gayasudeen since he had earlier alleged that one of his kidney was removed by Kumar.

Gayasudeen had stated in a local court on Friday that both his kidneys were intact and there was no need for his medical examination.

Another application of the CBI seeking permission to take the specimen of handwriting and finger prints of six accused- Ramesh, Umesh, Suresh, Linda, Dr Amit and Gayasudeen - was allowed.

The court directed the six to be present on April 16 when the specimen