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Fake blood plasma seizure: Pharma firm employee sent to 5-day custody
A local court on Monday sent Zahir Vohra employee of Mumbai based private pharmaceutical firm to five days police custody in connection with fake blood plasma case.
A local court on Monday sent Zahir Vohra employee of Mumbai based private pharmaceutical firm to five days police custody in connection with fake blood plasma case.
The accused will be produced in court on July 2 again. Assistant inspector general of counter intelligence (CI) wing of Punjab police Ajay Maluja said that they would bring the file related to agreement of firm with accused Dilbagh Singh for supply of blood plasma. Maluja said that police might resort to joint interrogation of Vohra and accused Dilbagh Singh to further investigate the case.
The CI wing had recovered 21,752 pouches of fake blood plasma from a truck with refrigeration facility near Behman Dewana village on June 13. With the arrest of Vohra, police now have arrested six persons in this connection.
The police had already arrested five persons in this connection who are in judicial custody which include Dilbagh Singh who was employed as head lab technician in a medical college, his associate in lab Paramjit Singh, Paramjit Singh a lab technician in a private hospital in Bathinda and his brother Narinder Singh from Behman Dewana village and Lal Bahadur Singh driver of truck.
During investigation it had emerged that accused Dilbagh Singh had an agreement with the firm for supply of blood plasma and Vohra, employed as marketing manager of plasma wing in the company, signed the deal on behalf of the firm.
Vohra was arrested on Sunday after police found his intention mala fide as he joined investigation in this case and did not answer the questions properly.