NCB had informed the Union Home Ministry that for the first time they detected drug traffickers using the darknet and Bitcoin for running the illegal drug racket in India. Drug trafficking in India is on a new high with anti-narcotics agencies having detected the crime being perpetrated through the cryptic 'darknet' and the clandestine and unregulated currency Bitcoin. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the law enforcement and intelligence agency responsible for fighting drug trafficking and abuse of illegal substances has interdicted two such syndicates operating in the country. Two syndicates interdicted by them were prima facie seen indulging in trafficking of party drugs. While drug trafficking scenario in the country, cross-border availability of heroin has decreased, drug addicts in Punjab were gradually getting attracted to medicine-based concoctions following the clampdown on peddling of traditional narcotic drugs.

Source: India Today July 17, 2016 15:56 UTC