NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have exposed the elaborate financial and operational web of absconding drug queenpin Kusum, who has been on the run since March. Her two daughters, now arrested, allegedly laundered cash from heroin sales into their accounts through small, disguised deposits.
Investigators said the younger daughter, Anuradha, often used friends’ bank accounts. “She would hand them ₹5,000–₹10,000 and ask for transfers via UPI or net banking into her account. The friends, unaware of the source, treated it as a favour. We’ve traced multiple such instances and found no legitimate source of income for either sister,” an officer said.
The family once lived in a fortress-like property in Sultanpuri — four adjoining houses merged into a fortified, multi-storey structure with mechanised doors, steel railings, and slit windows. Police said heroin was passed down in baskets from balconies, while juveniles kept watch in the lanes below.
During the March raid, Kusum’s son Amit (26) was arrested, and police seized 550 packets of heroin, tramadol tablets, ₹14 lakh in cash, and a Scorpio SUV. The subsequent financial trail pointed directly to Kusum’s daughters.
DCP (Outer) Sachin Sharma confirmed that charges under MCOCA have now been invoked against them, describing it as a move aimed at crippling Kusum’s financial network. Meanwhile, the queenpin herself—wanted in over a dozen narcotics cases across Delhi—remains absconding.
Police are also probing properties allegedly purchased with drug money across Delhi-NCR.
