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Drug syndicate run from Tihar jail busted
The Narcotics Control Bureau has busted a drug syndicate allegedly being run from Tihar jail here and has seized Afghanistan heroin worth Rs four crore in the international market.
According to NCB, the racket was busted with the arrest of a Nigerian woman and Anju Tiwari, an Indian national from the Uttam Nagar area here last evening.
The agency claimed that Anju's husband Krishan Kumar Tiwari, currently lodged in Tihar jail in kidnapping and extortion cases, was the main kingpin of the racket along with some other alleged Nigerian drug traffickers.
The duo were caught while exchanging a consignment of four kg of Afghanistan heroin worth Rs four crore in the international market. USD 30,000 was also recovered from their possession.
Explaining the syndicate's modus operandi, senior NCB officials said both Anju and the foreign national used to visit the jail every Monday and Thursday where they were briefed by Tiwari and his Nigerian fellow inmates. Officials said that the syndicate was formed after Tiwari got in touch with the alleged drug traffickers currently lodged in Asia's largest prison, Tihar jail.
The agency claimed that the gang dealt in drugs originating from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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