Bengaluru: Apart from the pandemic and locking, Bengaluru has seen an increase in 290% in the foreclosure of narcotics daily since last year.
Haul daily is 2.8kg for 2019 and has touched almost 11 kg since January 1, 2020.
On average, drugs confiscated every day by city police increased from less than RS 1 Lakh in 2019 more than five times to touch Rs 6, 7 lakh for the past half a year.
While the presence of the police at examination posts increased, the vendors prefer to use the web and dark cryptocurrency to supply drugs to customers, sometimes even posing as shipping agents.
The police, however, said they succeeded in thwarting the mobile seller’s method, citing an increase in drug spasms and the presence of a large number of violators for the first time – including students, technicians and other people who lost their jobs during locking – among criminal traders.
However, the sidewalk on inter-country and international travel does not check the narcotics inflow.
A police officer said the vehicle used for important services was used for ferry drugs to the city and vendors using the e-commerce platform label and pretending to be a shipping representative.
In addition, the use of dark webs also ends with a trace in many cases it becomes cold.
“What we observed in 2020, especially during locking, was that narcotics traders used various routes to enter the city.
We saw an increase in DarkNet orders and Cryptocurrency transactions to get drugs.
Also, peddlers provide drugs in disguise of food delivery staff.
Can reach the smuggling route and solve many cases last year and this year, “said Sandeep Patil, Commissioner with the police (crime).
In 2019, Bengaluru police registered 768 cases and used drugs worth RS 3.5 Crore.
The numbers touched 2,766 and Rs 21.4 Crore in 2020.
This year, 1,680 cases have been registered and drugs worth RS 14.8 Crore are confiscated until now.
In 2020 alone, 3,870kg marijuana was arrested, which was around 261% increased from the suggestion of 1.047kg in 2019.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) also made sure some crores rupees during the pandemic.
While synthetic drugs are obtained through dark web, marijuana, which is usually planted in Karnataka or in neighboring countries, seeing an increase as a local vendor began to accept it from many countries.
A forest officer in Biligiri Ranga Temple Tiger Reserve said, “Many lost jobs in Bengaluru back and began to grow marijuana in their farmland and on the outskirts of their forests.”