‘Darknet’ drugs vendor arrested

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Updated At : 11:58 AM Feb 10, 2020 IST

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new delhi: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Sunday said it had arrested the country’s first “darknet” narcotics operative who shipped psychotropic drug parcels abroad in the garb of sex stimulation medicines. Dipu Singh, 21, son of a retired Army officer, was arrested by NCB sleuths from Lucknow recently.

“Darknet” refers to the deep hidden Internet platform that is used for narcotics sale, exchange of pornographic content etc using secret alleys of The Onion Router (ToR) to duck surveillance. — PTI

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