00:00I bought enough poison to kill 10,000 people.
00:03Anyone can.
00:04And turns out, it's as easy as buying chocolates.
00:07No paperwork, no identity checks, no questions asked.
00:10Moe tested a loophole in India's online B2B marketplaces
00:13where a deadly regulated chemical is being sold with zero accountability.
00:18It starts on online portals with a search for zinc phosphide, a highly toxic compound.
00:23On paper, it is tightly regulated under the Insecticides Act.
00:26In reality, it's a total free-for-all.
00:28We tested the systems ourselves.
00:30We placed an online inquiry of 50 kilograms of rickle zinc phosphide.
00:34Within minutes, a West Bengal-based supplier reached out to us.
00:38Within hours, six more vendors swarmed our inbox.
00:41We gave them a completely fake address and asked to bypass Form 13,
00:45the mandatory government register meant to trace bulk buyers.
00:49The representative didn't even hesitate.
00:51To keep it entirely off the books, he stated the purchase will be without a JST bill.
00:55He then tried to upsell us to 60 kilos.
00:58When I disagreed, he immediately sent us a UPI QR code for payment.
01:02To secure the deal, he dropped the rate to a discounted 830 rupees per kg.
01:07Total cost, 41,500 rupees for 50 kg potent poison.
01:12A few taps and a massive shipment of poison would have been on its way.
01:16Of course, I stopped right there.
01:18Let's look at the deadly math here.
01:19Forensic experts state that just a tiny pinch, 2 to 5 grams of zinc phosphide is enough to kill an
01:26adult
01:26by releasing lethal phosphide gas into his body.
01:29On April 26th, four members of the Dokudiya family died mysteriously after eating watermelon.
01:35Forensics later revealed traces of poison.
01:37Exactly two months later, on June 26th, a man named Fayaz Premji was arrested during a Muharram procession
01:44for distributing painkiller capsules and later confessed he had 15,000 more packed with toxic powder,
01:51explicitly intending to launch a mass poisoning.
01:53The law is clear.
01:55Legal experts emphasize that under rules dating back to 1993,
01:59no prudent seller should ever supply a bulk zinc phosphide without verifying the buyer's identity,
02:04checking a valid license, and recording an end-use undertaking.
02:08Yet daily, digital marketplaces allow vendors to trade these lethal substances
02:13with the exact same scrutiny given to a grocery delivery.
02:16If anyone can buy enough poison to kill thousands with zero paperwork and a fake address,
02:22the question isn't if another tragedy will happen, the question is when will it happen?
02:29For more information, visit www.fema.org.
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