<p class="title">Mumbai Police's anti-narcotics cell has busted a drug racket being operated through mobile messaging application WhatsApp and arrested one person, an official said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As part of the racket, peddlers used to take drug orders from college students through WhatsApp, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The anti-narcotics cell got the information sometime back that some drug peddlers had switched over from their conventional mode of communication to app-based services.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"During the probe, it found that drug peddlers were using social messaging platforms to sell marijuana to college students," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Acting on a tip-off, the police laid a trap on Monday evening and nabbed Sunil Rajdev Das (29) near Navinchand Popatlal Kapadiya Vidya Mandir in Vile Parle and seized 9 kg of marijuana worth Rs 1.8 lakh from him, Deputy Commissioner of Police (anti-narcotics cell) Shivdeep Lande said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Following the interrogation of Das, the police came to know that his gang was using WhatsApp to sell drugs to students, mainly in suburban colleges," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Search was on for the other gang members, he said, adding that the accused was booked under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last week also, the anti-narcotics cell seized 16 kg of ganja worth Rs 3.2 lakh from another person, Arman Shaikh (20), and arrested him from P D'Mello road, he said. </p>
<p class="title">Mumbai Police's anti-narcotics cell has busted a drug racket being operated through mobile messaging application WhatsApp and arrested one person, an official said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As part of the racket, peddlers used to take drug orders from college students through WhatsApp, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The anti-narcotics cell got the information sometime back that some drug peddlers had switched over from their conventional mode of communication to app-based services.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"During the probe, it found that drug peddlers were using social messaging platforms to sell marijuana to college students," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Acting on a tip-off, the police laid a trap on Monday evening and nabbed Sunil Rajdev Das (29) near Navinchand Popatlal Kapadiya Vidya Mandir in Vile Parle and seized 9 kg of marijuana worth Rs 1.8 lakh from him, Deputy Commissioner of Police (anti-narcotics cell) Shivdeep Lande said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Following the interrogation of Das, the police came to know that his gang was using WhatsApp to sell drugs to students, mainly in suburban colleges," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Search was on for the other gang members, he said, adding that the accused was booked under provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last week also, the anti-narcotics cell seized 16 kg of ganja worth Rs 3.2 lakh from another person, Arman Shaikh (20), and arrested him from P D'Mello road, he said. </p>