Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): A team of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) busted an illegal blood smuggling racket and arrested two people, including an assistant professor, and recovered more than 100 units from their possession.
Both the arrested accused used to supply adulterated blood to different states, including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan. These accused used to sell adulterated blood in connivance with hospitals and blood banks in Lucknow and its nearby districts.
Dr Abhay Pratap Singh was caught with over 45 units of blood. Dr Singh told the STF that he works as an assistant professor in Saifai Medical College and collects and supplies donated blood to various places for which he has got all the related documents at home.
When the STF team accompanied the accused to his private residence at Gangotri Apartment located in Avadh Vihar Yojna, he showed them all the related documents. However, when drug inspectors scrutinised the papers, they were found to be fake.
When the STF searched the house of the accused, a youth named Abhishek Pathak was found in the backroom and 55 units of blood kept in the fridge were also recovered. The accused told during interrogation that he used to supply blood through fake papers to Avadh Hospital, Verma Hospital Kakori, Kakori Hospital, Nidan Blood Bank, Sushma Hospital and Banthra and Mohanlalganj hospitals.
The accused used to receive blood in bulk from Kamal Sattu, Dataram, Lituda, KD Kamal and Dr Azhar Rao of Haryana and Nilesh Singh of Delhi. The accused had made agents in Lucknow. Among them, Brijesh Nigam, Saurabh Verma, Deepu Chaudhary, Javed Khan and Dheeraj were working for the supply of blood.
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