Foresight News reported that according to Decrypt, the Indian Narcotics Control Board (NCB) recently announced the crackdown on the country's "most active dark web drug gang" and arrested a 35 year old mechanical engineer named Edison, who is suspected of operating a nationwide drug dark web trading network without his family's knowledge and using the privacy coin Monero (XMR) to launder money to evade law enforcement tracking. NCB seized 1127 LSD drug stickers, 131 grams of ketamine, and cryptocurrency assets worth over $82000 (approximately 700000 rupees) in the operation codenamed "Operation MELON", as well as seized cryptocurrency tools used for dark web transactions. The official stated that the suspect is currently the only "Level 4" dark web drug dealer in India, with the dark web code name "Ketamelon". NCB stated that Edison purchased drugs through Gunga Din, the largest LSD supplier in the UK, over the past two years and used Monero to launder the profits. He then distributed the drugs to several major cities in India, including Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, and the northern mountainous areas. Monero, as a cryptocurrency that emphasizes anonymity and privacy protection, has always been a common payment tool in dark web transactions. Chainalysis points out that an increasing number of dark web markets are turning to Monero due to the on chain transparency of Bitcoin. However, Andrew Fierman, the head of national security intelligence at the company, pointed out that despite Monero's strong privacy attributes, it still operates on an immutable ledger, and "complete privacy is difficult to achieve, and the on chain evidence left by criminal behavior will always exist