Man arrested for smuggling drugs hidden in packets of namkeen in Muzaffarnagar jail

Meerut | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

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Muzaffarnagar: A 21-year-old man was arrested for smuggling drugs hidden in namkeen packets inside Muzaffarnagar jail, police said on Thursday. The jail security caught Mukhtar Ahmed who was carrying 2,500 intoxicating tablets hidden in namkeen packets. The man had come to meet his kin here.“The man came to visit his brother who was locked in the jail. When the jail security searched him, they recovered thousands of drug tablets from his possession. He was caught smuggling drugs and has been sent to jail after being presented in court,” said an official at the Muzaffarnagar jail.This is not the first time that illegal goods are being smuggled into the jail..