BENGALURU: The City Crime Branch (CCB) of Bangalore on Friday busted an international drug racket and arrested a man on charges of obtaining drugs from Canada and transporting them to India.
The accused identified as a BCA graduate Atif Salim–a native of Kolkata in West Bengal was arrested on Thursday.
Accused named Atif Salim had contacted drug sellers in Canada through the dark web and used to obtain banned substances from them for delivering in India, said Bhaskar Rao, Indian Police Service (IPS), Banglore City Police.
Seized items Police have recovered 14 Marijuana packet kept in milk powder boxes which weighs about two kg 750 grams, 12 chocolate packs, weed flavoured cigarettes, Rs 1 lakh cash among other things.
The police also recovered ganja-laced chocolate and jelly e-cigarettes along with hashish oil canisters that were to be used in 100 e-cigarettes.
Operate on Dark Web The trafficking ring used “ dark web to smuggle narcotics from Canada” using e-commerce site Amazon’s courier services and police are trying to find out how the accused got access to Amazon’s packaging material.
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