According to the records of the Narcotics Control Bureau in the period 2015 to 2017,Guest Posting four cases were registered by various drug law enforcement agencies in which ‘dark net’ was used for sale and purchase of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
Dark net
There are many websites on the the hidden wiki Internet which are beyond the scope of commonly used search engines like Google, Bing, and general browsing. These are called dark net or deep net.
Unlike normal websites, it is a network that is accessible to select groups of people and this network can only be accessed through a specific authorization process, software and configuration.
The Information Technology Act, 2000 provides a statutory framework for addressing all types of cyber crimes prevalent in the country. On coming to notice of such crimes, law enforcement agencies take appropriate actions according to this law.
In terms of Access, the Internet is divided into three parts.
Surface Web
Surface web is the part of internet which we usually use in our day to day work.When searching on Google or Yahoo, we get search results and no specific permission is required for this. Such websites are indexed by search engines. Therefore these can be accessed through search engines.
Deep Web
These cannot be accessed only with the help of search results of search engines.To access a document on Deep Web, you have to log in by going to its URL address, for which the password and user name will have to be used. Such as Gmail account, blogging website, government publication, academic database, scientific research, etc. are similar websites which are statutory in their nature but require administrator permission to access them.
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