3 min readJun 30, 2026 01:02 PM IST
The Ahmedabad rural police have arrested two persons who ran blood banks in Maharashtra for their alleged involvement in the spurious plasma racket busted recently.
Superintendent of Police (Ahmedabad Rural) Om Prakash Jat said they were questioning the arrested accused Prakash and Ashok – who operated blood banks in Washim and Jalna of Maharashtra.
Six more blood banks in Maharashtra, which were allegedly buying plasma units from the prime accused Dinesh Chaudhary, are under the scanner of the Special Operation Group of Ahmedabad rural police, the SP said.
According to the SP, the two blood banks had bought 4,000 units of plasma from Chaudhary in the past six months. “More details will come out during their police remand which will be sought on Tuesday,” the SP said.
The SOG had seized 1,140 units of “adulterated” blood plasma, valued at nearly Rs 11 lakh in the market, and arrested four persons, including Chaudhary, earlier this week.
Chaudhary, a resident of Banaskantha, earlier worked as a blood plasma collection executive in multiple companies including the Ahmedabad multinational firm which he targeted.
Modus operandi
According to police, Chaudhary used to supply plasma to a pharmaceutical company based in Ahmedabad. After procuring from his sources, he would remove some of the content of the plasma pouches and put saline water instead, before supplying to the Ahmedabad firm.
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He would collect the original plasma collected during the process to pharmaceutical firms in Maharashtra through blood banks in the neighbouring state, police said.
Police began a probe after 562 of 1,670 units of plasma sourced from five blood banks in Maharashtra by the Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company were found to be spurious.
The market price of each unit of blood plasma, measuring around 350 ml, is around Rs 5,000.
An FIR was registered at Changodar police station on the basis of a complaint filed by an official of the pharmaceutical company and the accused were booked under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita sections 316(3) (criminal breach of trust) , 125 (Act of endangering life or personal safety), 276 (adulteration of drugs), 324 (5) (mischief), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy).
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Chaudhary is in police remand until Saturday while the other accused are in judicial custody.
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