Approximately 3.5 kg of buds costing around Rs 5,000 per gram were recovered during raids in Delhi and Mumbai. (ANI P …read more
NEW DELHI: A drug racket that was providing curing marijuana or ‘shoots’ from Delhi to Mumbai was busted by the Narcotics Control Office (NCB). Approximately 3.5 kg of buds costing around Rs 5,000 per gram were recovered during raids in Delhi and Mumbai. The drugs were found to have come from Canada and were ultimately destined for Goa from Mumbai.
KPS Malhotra deputy director (operations) said a crackdown on the illegal importation of cured marijuana (buds) was launched after the drug was found to be in high demand in the Mumbai market. It all came from the US or Canada, where it is produced in large quantities. All of these providers were found to be in contact with Bollywood celebrities.
NCB officials have arrested one Fahim Ahmed He works as a driver at a resort in Goa and it was discovered that he was receiving drugs. The role of some prominent Bangalore-based drug providers is also under review. Ahmed is being questioned to reveal the rest of the scandal.
“The drugs were seized from post offices abroad based on specific inputs. The widespread use and demand for buds in the Mumbai region has increased prices in the gray market and it has huge pecuniary gains in trafficking, ”Malhotra said.
The source of the yolk is chiefly through the Darknet, which gives buyers and sellers layers of anonymity. Monetary transactions in this type of international drug trade are based on cryptocurrency transactions that are also under the NCB’s scanner.
In operations in Delhi, the source of the outbreak was found to be from the US The recipient of the smuggling was based in Delhi, but his contact in Mumbai confused him with the fact that some legal things were being acquired from the US. USA
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