Drug trafficking: police retrieve contact lists of prime suspects

The Kozhikode City police have retrieved the contact lists of some main alleged artificial drug pushers who have been just lately arrested by the District-Level Anti-Narcotics Special Action Force (DANSAF) throughout flash inspections.

Police sources mentioned the recovered cellphone information would assist establish extra suspected traffickers and assist investigations into some beforehand registered drug instances. The State-level Hi-Tech Crime Inquiry Cell and the Cyber Police are additionally working to get well deleted social media communications of the arrested suspects from throughout Kerala, they added.

A senior officer with the Anti-Narcotics Squad in Kozhikode district mentioned over 1,500 drug trafficking instances have been registered within the metropolis previously seven months. Of these, over 30 instances concerned the seizure of economic portions of medication, which have been investigated intimately utilizing name element information (CDR) accessed with the technical assist of the Cyber Cell officers.

Apart from monitoring CDRs and social media exercise, the police additionally examined the checking account particulars of a number of arrested ‘drug traffickers’ to hint their monetary sources and establish individuals linked to suspicious transactions. Officers mentioned that a number of accounts—some operated from overseas—had already been frozen as a part of the intensified crackdown.

Within the previous seven months alone, the financial institution accounts of 10 arrested suspected drug pushers have been frozen in Kozhikode metropolis limits, in response to the most recent information out there with the District Crime Records Bureau. This was along with the confiscation of illegally acquired belongings, together with autos and different immovable properties, of arrested ‘drug pushers’.

Police sources mentioned forfeiture proceedings underneath the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act, 1976, would quickly be initiated towards extra individuals who have been just lately caught with industrial portions of artificial medicine. They added that police stations within the metropolis limits now have well-trained particular squads devoted to dealing with trafficking instances and guaranteeing correct follow-up motion.