A 45-year-old Nalasopara resident was arrested by the Zimbabwe police for illegal possession of 9.2 kgs of drugs in October last year and has been inside a prison since. Her family members claimed that the arrested woman was offered a job to bring the bag from the African country to Mumbai and that she was unaware of the contents of the bag. They further said that it was a foreign national who lived in a rented flat in the same building in Nalasopara who offered her the job and also paid for her visa and flight tickets.

The arrested woman, Zeenat Khatun Rafiq Shaikh, lived with two daughters, aged 19 and 17, and a 16-year-old son at Silver Plaza building in Hanuman Nagar, Nalasopara West. Shaikh used to earn some money from looking after the maintenance of the same building. As the sole earning member of the family, she was in need of money after her elder daughter’s wedding was fixed in October last year.