The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday handed over the probe into the smuggling of cannabis through e-commerce giant Amazon to the Special Task Force (STF). The smuggling racket was busted by the MP Police in November last year.
The police in Bhind district had registered a case against the executive directors of Amazon India after busting a racket that allegedly sold ganja (cannabis) through Amazon under the guise of selling a sweetener. The e-commerce platform said in a statement that it does not allow the sale of illegal products through its platform and is cooperating with the investigation in the matter.
Bhind Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Singh had told PTI at the time that a case under section 38 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against the executive directors of Amazon India operating as ASSL in the country. . However, the name of any one officer is not mentioned in the FIR, he said.
Section 38 deals with the role of companies and their management in drug-related offences.
The SP said that a case under NDPS Act has been registered at Gohad police station of the district on November 13 after 21.7 kg of ganja was recovered from Gwalior residents Bijendra Tomar and Suraj alias Kallu Pawaiya.
He said that another resident of Gwalior, Mukul Jaiswal and buyer Chitra Balmiki, a resident of Mehgaon, Bhind, were arrested during interrogation. Investigation revealed that Pawaiya and Jaiswal had formed a company named ‘Babu Tex’ and registered it as a seller on Amazon, Singh said.
He said they supply hemp from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh under the guise of selling stevia through the company, which is a plant-based sweetener.
(with PTI inputs)
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