Charas chocolates?! Yes, the banned drug is available wrapped in chocolate-like covers and tagged as “Ayurvedic medicine” across Bengaluru and its outskirts. Jigani police recently arrested six men on drug peddling charges and recovered over 10,000 charas chocolates worth Rs 10 lakh from them. Charas is an opioid derived from cannabis plants.
Police said the prime suspect, Jeetu Bisambar Singh, 24, a courier agent from Rajajinagar, purchased charas chocolates from one Monu in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. He distributed them among the other five suspects who delivered the chocolates to pan shops. Barring Anand who is from Jharkhand, the rest are from UP.