Editor, Goemkarponn
AERIAL VIEW
In this case, Noida police arrested nine people on November 27, including four law and MBA students of a prominent private university, for allegedly supplying drugs to colleges, university hostels, and paying guest accommodations.
Among the drugs supplied by them were marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, and original Californian weed.
The gang accepted orders on Snapchat, Telegram, and WhatsApp.
They would deliver the drugs in leftover packages of e-commerce firms to avoid suspicion.
The peddlers used bike taxi riders to deliver the drugs.
Shockingly, the racket was on for close to two years.
Interestingly, all this has been written in my friend Manish Pachouly’s latest book (Cartel: The New-Age Narcos), which reveals many such rackets and modus operandi, and it is and will be an eye-opener for parents and youngsters in Goa too.
SURAJ NANDREKAR
Editor, Goemkarponn
Drugs or narcotics business has been one area which the Goa Police has failed to achieve any success despite arrests and raids every given day.
We read in social media posts and mainstream media that drugs worth so and so amount from so and so person was seized and person was arrested but for decades now only small-time peddlers are being arrested while the kingpins are left scot-free.
Earlier this week, the Uttar Pradesh Police has shockingly arrested few professionals who were involved in the drugs trade living aside their lucrative professions.
Yes, this is the new age of drugs business and the highly qualified professionals and use of technology – the business is going beyond the long arms of law.
The recent shocking case has once again proven the unceasing danger of youngsters falling prey to drug consumption and peddling that has been highlighted in a latest book, Cartel: The New-Age Narcos.
In this case, Noida police arrested nine people on November 27, including four law and MBA students of a prominent private university, for allegedly supplying drugs to colleges, university hostels, and paying guest accommodations.
Among the drugs supplied by them were marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, and original Californian weed.
The gang accepted orders on Snapchat, Telegram, and WhatsApp.
They would deliver the drugs in leftover packages of e-commerce firms to avoid suspicion.
The peddlers used bike taxi riders to deliver the drugs.
Shockingly, the racket was on for close to two years.
Interestingly, all this has been written in my friend Manish Pachouly’s latest book (Cartel: The New-Age Narcos), which reveals many such rackets and modus operandi, and it is and will be an eye-opener for parents and youngsters in Goa too.
In Goa though not many professionals have been found involved but the use of technology has been rampant. For exmaple, drugs are being ordered through Darknet and that is what was revealed during investigations in Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case.
The investigating agences had raided several places in Goa’s coastal areas and found incriminating evidence but shockingly there has been no strong action.
It is shocking that even the Goa Police, which has made a habit of cracking the cases within hours, fails to lay their hands on the kingpins. Or is there no inclination to nab them?
The Goa Police never bothered to touch the people like kingpins from Anjuna before, except for some petty crimes until the Hyderabad police came in and identified the drug kingpins from Goa – and all this while the Goa police was in the dark.
The Hyderabad police commissioner, CV Anand, had shockingly said that his team never received help from Goa police while probing drug cases that have a Goa connection. Anand said this in response to a query on Goa police during a press meet.
Reacting to this allegation, Goa Police has clarified that they have never received any request for assistance from their counterpart at Hyderabad.
Seriously, why do these things happen only in Goa?
This is not just a one-off story; Goa has been grabbing headlines all over due to the drug trade.
