{"id":342018,"date":"2025-07-04T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=342018"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:13:46","slug":"operation-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-melon\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation MELON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Narcotics Control Bureau has achieved a major breakthrough by dismantling India&#8217;s most prolific darknet drug syndicate under its Operation Melon.<\/p>\n<h2>About Operation MELON<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an operation by the <strong>Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)<\/strong> in 2025 that dismantled &#8220;<strong>Ketamelon<\/strong>,&#8221; India&#8217;s most sophisticated <strong>darknet drug syndicate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This high-impact operation was led by the <strong>NCB Cochin zonal unit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ketamelon: <\/strong>It had established a wide network for shipping <strong>Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)<\/strong> to major cities, including Bengaluru, Chennai, Bhopal, Patna, and Delhi, as well as in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Ketamelon\u2019 was <strong>India\u2019s only \u2018Level 4\u2019 darknet vendor<\/strong> operating actively over the past two years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LCD:<\/strong> Also known as <strong>acid, blots, and stamp<\/strong>, LSD is a <strong>hallucinogenic drug<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>odourless, colourless, and tasteless<\/strong>, and can be painted onto small paper pieces that users lick or swallow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zambada: <\/strong>In <strong>2023<\/strong>, the NCB had busted the then <strong>biggest darknet based LSD cartel named \u2018Zambada\u2019.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the only cartel in the country with <strong>5-star rating operating from Delhi<\/strong> National Capital Region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ratings:<\/strong> The cartels on the darknet are rated on the scale of 1 to 5 levels based on the potency of the drug sold, and their \u201ccustomer service\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Narcotics Control Bureau has achieved a major breakthrough by dismantling India&#8217;s most prolific darknet drug syndicate under its Operation Melon. About Operation MELON It is an operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in 2025 that dismantled &#8220;Ketamelon,&#8221; India&#8217;s most sophisticated darknet drug syndicate. This high-impact operation was led by the NCB Cochin&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-melon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation MELON<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,12039,7965],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-342018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-knolls","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}