More smugglers taking post office route to ship drugs from overseas Parcel Recently Seized From Chamarajpet

More smugglers taking post office route to ship drugs from overseas

Parcel Recently Seized From Chamarajpet

Petlee.Peter@timesgroup.com

Bengaluru: 20.08.2020

A unit of Bangalore Customs recently seized a parcel containing psychotropic drugs like ecstasy, MMDA and brown sugar, that reached Chamarajpet Foreign Post Office from the Netherlands. Investigation led to the arrest of a city youth who had allegedly ordered the drugs through the dark web.

With various enforcement agencies like police, Customs and Narcotics Control Bureau tightening their grip on drug smuggling, many dealers are using the postal service to transport them from overseas.

Customs sources revealed smugglers are increasingly bringing psychedelic drugs into Bengaluru through foreign post as there’s a spurt in the number of unregistered parcels without proper delivery address. “The parcel which reached Chamarajpet contained nearly 100 ecstasy pills and blocks of MDMA and brown sugar in a semipowdered form. The suspect was to receive it as soon as it arrived from Europe,” explained an investigating officer.

Following the seizure, the Customs team traced the man who had ordered the drugs. However, sleuths didn’t divulge his identity or value of drugs seized. They are trying to ascertain his local links and the source of the drug cache.

Smuggling drugs from the US and Europe via foreign post has emerged as a trend in different cities over the past few years, with Bengaluru being a key location on the drug map.

The parcel at Chamarajpet Foreign Post Office had nearly 100 ecstasy pills and blocks of MDMA