Team Herald
PANJIM: The Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) police on Monday night busted one of the biggest LSD rackets in the State, seizing 1,825 LSD blot papers worth Rs 91 lakh in the international market.
The police arrested a non-Goan from Anjuna and has withheld his name. Apart from LSD, the ANC also seized other drugs from the possession of the accused.
The drug seizure amounts to a whopping Rs l.1 crore. With the arrest of the accused, the ANC has busted a pan India network of supplying LSD and other drugs.
According to the police, the accused used to receive the contraband hidden in books and photo frames through courier in big quantities and further used to send them to his customers across the country through courier as per their requirement. The accused has been living in Goa since the last few years and used to procure huge consignment of drugs through the dark net and further supplied them to his customers, mostly from the party circuit in major cities of the country.
The ANC were working on this operation since last month and had maintained a sharp watch on his movements for almost a month. The ANC on late Monday night swooped down on the accused and raided his apartment at Anjuna and recovered the narcotics.
LSD or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a synthetic chemical based drug and is categorized as a hallucinogen. LSD abuse is largely prevalent among youngsters and partygoers. Possession of 0.1 gram of LSD is a commercial quantity and till now this is the single largest LSD Blot seizure in recent time. The seizure is 270 times the commercial quantity.
This seizure was the fifth drug bust by ANC in the last 12 days taking the total amount of drugs seized to Rs 1.25 crore. The ANC has continued their crackdown on drug trafficking and more arrests are likely to happen.
The entire raid was supervised by PI (ANC) Sajith Pillai under the continuous monitoring and guidance of DySP (ANC) Nerlon Albuquerque and SP (ANC) Tikkam Singh Verma, IPS and conducted by PSI Sunil Falkar assisted by head constable Umesh Dessai and constables Godish Goltekar, Sairaj Naik, Makarand Ghadi and constable/driver Kundan Patekar.
PSI Dindayal Redkar is conducting further investigations.