The Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) busted a drug trafficking ring with networks on the dark web and apprehended two accused, who police described as dark web kingpins, and six others who are allegedly drug peddlers from Hyderabad.
This is the first time that H-NEW has busted drug trafficking gangs that operate on the dark web.
According to police, the kingpins have been identified as Narendra Arya alias Holy Shop, a resident of Goa and Farhan Mohammad Ansari alias Treeminator, a native of Rajasthan. The six drug peddlers have been identified as Utkarsh Umang alias Ashu, Sahil Sharma, Abdullah Khan, Indra Kumar, A Charan Kumar and P Bushan Raj. Additionally, as many as 30 drug users have been identified, who Hyderabad City Police Commissioner C V Anand described as “educated and from affluent backgrounds”. Mr Anand said that payment for these narcotics was by means of cryptocurrency.
