ALLAHABAD: Seven persons were arrested for
selling blood illegally
to people in need and charging a hefty sum outside a
blood bank near Uchwagari
in the city on Sunday.
Police swung into action after being approached by a blood bank associated with the
Allahabad Medical Association
(AMA) on Saturday.
The blood bank lodged an FIR with Cantonment police station against a group of unidentified persons under sections 419, 420 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code for running a blood selling racket.
In its complaint, the blood bank also alleged that the miscreants threatened the blood bank’s employees when the latter asked them to check their illegal activities.
The arrested miscreants were identified as Abhay Pandey of Rajapur, Yashir Ansari of Colonelganj, Zainid of Naini, Mohd Siddiqui of Manda, Sudhakar Singh of Khiri, Gopal Awasthi of Daraganj and Rakesh Sonkar of Georgetown.
SSP (Allahabad) Nitin Tiwari, said, “Abhay Pandey was the kingpin of the racket and had been running the racket with his accomplices outside the blood bank."
Tiwari said Pandey and his aides used to operate outside the blood bank and used to search for targets who were unable to find donors and needed blood immediately.
“The racketeers used to charge a sum between Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 for per unit of blood and then used to arrange for a donor," he said, adding that another accused Yashir Ansari was entrusted with the task of arranging donors.
“While the real donor was paid just Rs 2,000 or Rs 3000, the miscreants used to share the remaining amount among themselves,” Tiwari added.
Kapil Dixit is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Mass Communi...
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