Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force has arrested two persons for allegedly running a blood smuggling racket. It includes an assistant professor at Sefai Medical College in Etawah. As many as 100 units of blood have also been recovered from their possession.

As per details derived from the sources, the Special Task Force had busted a syndicate involved in the purchase and sale of adulterated blood two and a half years ago and the team since then had been closely monitoring blood smuggling gangs.

The STF official said, "Two people involved in smuggling blood have been arrested once again. Assistant professor Dr. Abhay Pratap Singh, who was involved in smuggling blood from UP to Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, was arrested with 45 units of blood during smuggling on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway." During interrogation, Dr Singh revealed that he collects and supplies the donated blood for which he has all the documents at home.

According to the reports, when the STF team took the doctor to his Gangotri apartment in Sushant Golf City in Lucknow, 55 units of blood were recovered from his fridge and his partner Abhishek Pathak was also caught from the other room of the flat. The Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) team scanned the documents shown by Singh and found them to be forged. The doctor said that he buys a unit of blood from blood banks in Rajasthan for Rs 1,200 and sells it in Lucknow and nearby nursing homes for Rs 4,000 to 6,000.

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