India, Aug. 10 -- Mysuru-Mumbai drug couriers used WhatsApp 'shirt photo' as a code to hand over Mephedrone pack

Mumbai, Aug. 10 (Agencies)- Unravelling the Rs. 434-crore inter-State drug racket originating in Mysuru, Mumbai's Sakinaka Police have exposed a bizarre smuggling tactic - a covert 'shirt photo' code used to move Mephedrone (MD) between cities.

According to the Police, two separate gangs worked in tandem to move the contraband from a large-scale MD manufacturing unit at Belavatta, on Mysuru's Outer Ring Road, to Mumbai. One gang transported the drugs to Bengaluru, where an unrelated gang would take over. Instead of speaking to each other, couriers exchanged a WhatsApp photo of a shirt as a secret identification signal, elimin...