According to Odaily Planet Daily, Indian Home Minister Nityanand Rai told Parliament on Wednesday that as many as 92 cases of using dark web and cryptocurrency to buy drugs have occurred in India from 2020 to April 2024. Rai's answer was in response to questions raised by opposition MP Jose K. Mani about drug trafficking. The Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) registered 3 such cases in 2020, 49 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 21 in 2023, and 11 as of April 2024. The data does not distinguish how many of the 92 cases were related only to the dark web and how many were related only to encryption in terms of transaction methods. During the same period, there were 1,025 cases involving parcels or couriers. Rai also said that in addition to taking other preventive measures, a special task force has been set up to monitor such suspicious drug-related transactions.