The Hyderabad Narcotic Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) announced on Thursday, September 1, that eight people have been arrested in connection with an interstate drug racket.
Using social networks, cryptocurrency wallets, and hidden apps, the prime accused were distributing drugs on the dark web and facilitating door-to-door delivery, police discovered.
During an investigation, investigators discovered that the two main accused used cryptocurrency throughout India to make nearly Rs 45 lakh worth of transactions for drug trafficking. A police statement said 140 grams of charas/hash, 1450 grams of ganja, 184 blots of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 10 grams of MDMA or ecstasy, and mobile phones totaling Rs 9 lakh had been seized.
It was reported Thursday that 30 drug consumers who purchased the narcotic substance from the accused had been identified, and an investigation is underway to identify the rest, according to the press release. There are eight other people accused in this case, and two of them are residents of Goa and Rajasthan, while six of them are residents of Hyderabad.
Police stations at Humayunnagar, Chaderghat, and Jubilee Hills registered three cases against the accused.
Narendra Arya, who hails from Haryana and lives in Goa, is one of the main accused who has been trafficking drugs on the dark web for the past year. A total of nearly 450 consumers were involved in his cryptocurrency trafficking business, consisting of nearly Rs 30 lakh worth of transactions. According to police, Farhad Mohd Ansari, a B Tech final year student from Madhya Pradesh who lives in Rajasthan, is the other prime accused.
The drugs were delivered to customers’ homes in neatly packed boxes using courier services and India Post, according to police, adding that he had transacted around Rs 15 lakh in cryptocurrency. It is alleged that the accused drug peddlers from Hyderabad were purchasing drugs from the two main accused and supplying them to city consumers on cash-on-delivery terms.
Anand said Narendra Arya was one of many drug peddlers operating out of Goa when he shared details of the case with the media on Thursday. According to him, a Goan newspaper recently reported that H-NEW had caught drug peddlers in Goa, but that the police and the state government had not succeeded in solving the death of BJP leader Sonali Phogat.
As a result of the information from the Sonali Phogat case, Anand said they were able to catch drug peddlers in Goa associated with some of the accused in the Hyderabad case. The Hyderabad police also received negative results when they sought information from H-NEWt because the Goa police failed to cooperate with them.
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