Lucknow: Special Task Force (STF) arrested two people in the country’s capital and damaged the gang that smuggled human blood from Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana, melting it with salt water and supplied to various neighboring hospitals and neighboring banks in Lucknow and its surroundings.
Both were accused of, Dr.
Abhay Pratap Singh, Mbbs, MD, and his aide Abhishek Pathak, both from the PGI Police Station, were booked at the Sushant Golf City Police Station.
Singh is a professor assistant at the medical University of Sciences, Saifai, in Etawah District.
The team restored 100 units of packaged red blood cells (PCRB), 21 fake letters from different blood banks, two blood donor camp banners, a luxury car, DR Singh identity card, five cellphones and ATM cards, two PAN cards, doctor membership cards and cash 23,830.
STF was told that some people from Lucknow were involved in blood smuggling.
The defendant was involved in the smuggling of blood falsified and sold it to those in need through their agents at high prices when using fake letters from different blood banks in Lucknow, said ASP, STF, Vishal Vikram Singh.
On Thursday, the STF team was told that the defendant would supply blood.
“A team, including a drug inspector, put a trap at Lucknow Agra Expressway Toll Plaza and arrested a man in a luxury car,” ASP said.
“The defendant identified himself as Dr.
Abhay Pratap Singh from the SGPGI police station area.
We found 45 units of blood at the car booted, but the papers were incomplete.
He claimed he followed the rules and looked for time to show the paper.
The team went to his residence in Gangotri Apartments Where he showed several documents, but the drug inspector found them invalid.
The team found Abhishek Pathak in a room and recover 55 units of blood from the refrigerator, “Singh said.
The doctor then acknowledged his crime and revealed it had long been.
Deputy SP STF, Amit Nagar, interrogated the defendant who revealed the names of their institutions and agents.
The gang buys blood at Rs 1200 per unit but sells it for Rs 4,000-6,000 per unit after mixing salt water in the blood to meet demand.
Dr.
Singh told STF that he did MD in the transfusion treatment of SGPGI and then worked at the blood bank and later as a consultant at the City Hospital.