Police bust drug racket involving Bitcoins, deep web — and a DJ
According to police, the accused have been identified as Kamal Kalra (23) and Mahesh Goyal (38). While Kalra is a DJ, Goyal worked as a supervisor in a plastic pipe manufacturing unit in Delhi.
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Police also recovered 42 grams of “fine quality ecstasy tablets and 20 grams of powdered MDMA from their possession”.
With the arrest of two persons, the Delhi Police claim to have uncovered an international drug racket in India which was actively using the ‘deep web’ to purchase drugs and pay for it using Bitcoins, a digital payment system.
Police also recovered 42 grams of “fine quality ecstasy tablets and 20 grams of powdered MDMA from their possession”. MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, is a psychoactive drug used primarily as a recreational drug. It is illegal under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
According to police, the accused have been identified as Kamal Kalra (23) and Mahesh Goyal (38). While Kalra is a DJ, Goyal worked as a supervisor in a plastic pipe manufacturing unit in Delhi.
According to police sources, Goyal found that the drugs could be purchased online via the deep web. An officer explained, “All websites operate by trying to be as visible as possible, so that search engines can find them quickly. The opposite of this, when websites seek to stay hidden in the shadows, is the deep web. It is often used for online banking and web mail. But it is used for illegal activities as well.”
DCP (Crime) Rajesh Deo told The Indian Express that the drugs were to be distributed at a party in Kasol. “On October 29, Kalra was arrested from Rohini Sector 13 with 100 pills of Ecstacy (MDMA). During questioning, he told police that he procured the contraband from a person he contacted over the phone — who went by various names such as Sanjay and Utkarsh. Police analysed the mobile number and traced it to Goyal, and he was arrested from Dwarka. Twenty grams of MDMA, in raw form, was found in his possession,” the DCP said.
During questioning, Goyal told police that when he used to live in Chennai, he had attended a party where he first consumed Ecstasy. “The men who sold him the drug said they bought it from a website on the deep web. He too purchased the drugs from the site,” a police officer said.
According to police, Kalra would organise events in Delhi-NCR and Kasol where he would distribute drugs to customers. Recently, he organised two parties in Gurgaon’s Sohna Road and Noida Sector 18. Police have also identified some women who were allegedly involved in the racket.
The DCP added that the issue has been taken up by the Narcotics Control Bureau and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to ensure such transactions are stopped.
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