New Delhi, Feb 20 || With the borders becoming harder to breach, Pakistan-based narcotic cartels are relying heavily on locals in India to produce and supply drugs.
Officials say that reliance is heavy on local manufacturing since it has become harder to smuggle drugs into India through the borders.
The Punjab border which was the preferred route in recent years to smuggle narcotics, too, has become hard to breach. Pakistan has been using drones to bring in the narcotics, but now security has been tightened, as a result of which, the cartels are finding it harder to operate.
An Intelligence Bureau official said that the Dawood Syndicate has activated several of its men in India and are asking them to mass produce narcotics locally.
Dawood’s men in India are using the opium cultivation belt that already existed in the western districts of Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Rajasthan. Today the same belt is used to manufacture MDMA.
Over the last couple of months, several busts have taken place in these belts and investigations have clearly pointed to a Dawood link. Investigators say that these cartels have set up massive labs which are capable of producing MDMA in large quantities.