Amazon Faces Fresh Marijuana Case in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam Police has recovered 48 kilograms of marijuana from Amazon staff in a recent investigation following the preliminary restoration of the prohibited drug in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh. Upon getting a tip from the Bhind Police, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Visakhapatnam discovered two Amazon supply staff with marijuana. The state division additionally recovered Amazon’s packaging materials that was supposedly used for transporting the drug. The newest improvement comes simply after the Bhind Police charged Amazon’s executives underneath narcotics legal guidelines in case of the alleged marijuana smuggling through the net market.

On Saturday, the Visakhapatnam Police arrested Amazon affiliate Chilakapati Srinivasa Rao, 48, within the metropolis, together with two of its supply staff for allegedly smuggling marijuana. The accused have been discovered with the drug together with an digital weighing balance and Amazon’s packaging materials, the Bhind Police that tipped the ACB division in Visakhapatnam mentioned in a press be aware launched on Monday.

The accused had two gunny baggage, every of which had 24 kilograms of marijuana, in line with the primary info report (FIR) filed by the police, a duplicate of which is with Gadgets 360.

Separately, the Madhya Pradesh Police has recovered a recent lot of 17 kilograms of marijuana from Amazon’s associates for which an FIR has been filed with the Mehgaon Police Station in Madhya Pradesh. Last week, two males have been arrested in Bhind for utilizing Amazon to order and smuggle the drug. Executive Directors of Amazon Seller Services — a subsidiary of the US e-commerce large — have been later charged underneath the Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 for the alleged smuggling.

Traders’ physique Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has demanded the federal government to droop Amazon’s operations within the nation and arrest its officers for permitting the commerce of marijuana. The physique has additionally urged authorities to register a case of treason in opposition to the e-commerce firm.

CAIT National President BC Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal known as Amazon a “Ganja company.” Ganja is the Hindi identify for marijuana.

Gadgets 360 has reached out to Amazon for a touch upon the matter. This report will probably be up to date when the corporate responds.

On Sunday, CAIT claimed that again in 2019, Amazon was used for sourcing chemical substances of bombs that resulted within the Pulwama terror assault. It alleged that ammonium nitrate, amongst different supplies, was bought by means of the net market to arrange the improvised explosive units (IEDs) for the assault.