I am not a witness to this but I have heard from sources who are aware of this unbelievable practice.
This pertains to some of the roadside shelters for truck drivers along the highways in northern India. The shelters have string beds or 'khatias' for the truck drivers to rest at night.
The owners of these shelters employ some locals, whom they call 'khatmal khilane walas' (those who feed bed bugs). The job of the 'khatmal khilane wala' is to lie down on the beds for about an hour, early in the evening so that the bed bugs have their fill of human blood, so as to spare the truck drivers at night!
We have earlier heard of people in poverty tacking recourse to being professional blood donors. But this is new.
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