In a pan-India operation, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested 22 persons, including four women, for their alleged involvement in procurement and sale of drugs via darknet, largely in small quantities. Among the accused are a software engineer, financial analyst, fashion designer and a musician.
A key accused has been identified as Raghunath Kumar. Nicknamed “LCD king”, he is lodged in Karnataka’s Bellari Jail from where he had been operating, according to the NCB. He had allegedly authored a guideline for buying, packaging and selling drugs; and using cryptocurrencies, India Post, pseudonyms, fake IDs and changing addresses frequently for evading detection.
