Duo uses bitcoins to buy drugs online, arrested

Agencies
November 7, 2017

New Delhi, Nov 7: The Delhi police on Monday claimed to have arrested two persons for procuring drugs over the Internet. The police said that the accused bought the drug “Ecstasy” using Bitcoins. The police has recovered 42 grams of fine quality Ecstasy tablets and 20 grams of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) from the accused which were to be supplied to rave parties in Delhi-NCR.

Senior police officers said they suspect there is a large nexus involving people who physically supply these drugs.

Also known as Love Pill, Ecstasy is a recreational drug. It heightens perceptions of colour and sound and supposedly amplifies sensations when one touches or caresses another, particularly during sex. It often contains hallucinogens — drugs that act on the mind and cause people to see or feel things that are not really there.

The senior police officer said that on October 29, the sleuths of the narcotics cell received a tip-off about a gang which supplies drug to rave parties. Based on the tip-off, Kamal Kalra, a DJ, was arrested from Rohini Sector 13.

During investigation, Kalra disclosed that he had procured the contraband from a supplier over the phone. Based on the call records, the supplier, identified as Mahesh Goyal, was arrested from Dwarka.

When both the accused were interrogated at length, they revealed that psychotropic substances like LSD, MMDA, MDA, ketamine, methamphetamine, and amphetamines are widely used in rave parties.

Goyal disclosed that his first encounter with Ecstasy was in Chennai, where he attended a party. There he got to know that these psychotropic drugs can be easily bought online. He also informed police that these illegal drugs can be purchased using Bitcoins. The police added that it is getting in touch with the ministry of information technology to put a stop on these transactions.

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June 26,2020

Kozhikode, Jun 26: A man, who had returned from Bahrain on Thursday and has been under quarantine at his house in Villyapallai near here, has been stabbed on his arm by an unidentified person.

Police sources said the assailant, with a masked face, had ransacked the man's house by break-opening the door at midnight lat night and stabbed Lijeesh on his arm and fled from the scene.

The nearby residents took Lijeesh to a nearby hospital and was put back on quarantine. 

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February 5,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 5: City Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru City have arrested two drug peddlers from Kerala and have seized banned products from their possession.

According to officials the arrested persons have been identified as Shinto Thomas (35) of Wayanad and Tajudden Talat (29) of Thiruvananthapuram.

"We have seized 4 kg 350 grams of Hashish oil, 21.5 kgs of Ganja, Rs. 9300 cash, two mobile phones, two ganja crushing tools, and 625 empty boxes and other articles from them", police said in a statement.

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June 5,2020

Jun 5: A young woman was forced to drink liquor allegedly by her husband after which he along with four friends assaulted, burnt her with cigarette butts and raped her in front of her five year-old son, police said on Friday.

All the five, who were taken into custody earlier, have been arrested. The shocking incident occurred in the state capital last night.

The incident came to light after the 25-year-old woman, approached police and complained against her husband and his four friends.

A case has been registered against the five accused for kidnapping, assaulting and gangrape.

Since the incident took place in front of the child, a case under Protection of children from sexual offices Act has also been charged against the accused.

Meanwhile, State health and family welfare minister K K Shailaja asked the state police chief to take stringentction against the culprits as "such cruelty happened in front of her child."

The Kerala State Women's Commission on its own registered a case and sought report from the Thiruvananthapuram Rural SP.

She managed to escape from there and pleaded for help from a young man, who saw in heran inebriatedstate, and took her to her house and informed police.

The man later told some television channels that she was crying, had injuries on her face and pleaded for help.

Police have recorded the statement of the woman, who was admitted to a government hospital here and later discharged.

She had also stated that the men had tortured her using cigarette butts.

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