Eight persons have been arrested so far in the case of marijuana smuggling through Amazon from Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Four arrests were made by the anti-corruption wing of the Visakhapatnam Police on Tuesday in the case that was first cracked by Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind police on November 13.

According to Bhind SP Manoj Singh, the latest arrests — four from Visakhapatnam — were made on inputs provided by the Bhind police and a total of 68 Kg of contraband has so far been recovered. While 48kg ‘ganja’, packed in two jute bags, was seized from the three accused arrested in Visakhapatnam, 20kg of contraband was seized from the two arrested by the Bhind police on November 13.

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According to Singh, the gang has so far confessed to having transported over 800kg of ‘ganja’ in 384 consignments via Amazon.

The Bhind police have also registered a case under Section 38 of the NDPS Act against the executive director of Amazon Seller Services after the e-commerce giant refused to cooperate with the investigating agencies, police claimed.

Among those who were arrested include a man named Suraj from Gwalior and another named Brijendra Singh from Bhind. They were arrested on November 13. Mukul Jaiswal of Gwalior and Chitra Balmiki of Mehgaon in Bhind were arrested on November 20. The rest were identified as Srinivas Rao, Venketesh Rao, Jeeru Kumar and Krishnam Raju from Vishakapatnam. One suspect, Mohan Raju, is absconding.