Ghanshyam Sarda was accused for supplying expired blood test kit in West Bengal , India. He was arrested from Kolkata airport. Ghanshyam and his brother Govind owned Monozyme company in Secunderabad, India. This company was charged for supplying contaminated blood throughout the state for 2 years.Thousands of people received this contaminated blood that was tested with kits having expiry dates tampered with.[1]
The scam
editBengal was found non functional at the time of procurement when more than a lakh blood test kita were supplied to about 75 state run and private blood banks. The kits were defunct and expired. As a result,thousands of people who had blood transfusion now face a risk of contamination from viruses of diseases like Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, AIDS and malaria. This scam is also called kit scam in the Marxist regime.[2]