Gangster Deepak Boxer, lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail, ran extortion racket from behind bars

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According to police sources, threats to businessmen are being conveyed through calls made using foreign SIM cards by an associate outside the jail, Boxer himself preferring conference calls to dodge investigators...

A police probe has also revealed that Boxer's syndicate is recruiting the juveniles through Instagram, promising them gang membership, with weapons and a support system of money and manpower if they accomplish their tasks..

These revelations were made after the crime branch recently disbanded a module run by Boxer from jail and apprehended eight suspects, including two juvenile shooters involved in a recent case of extortion and shooting in north Delhi...

The crime branch has also arrested Boxer from jail in the case and recovered the phone being used by him and his associates in Tihar..

They revealed to the cops that they were in touch with two Tihar jail inmates named Manmohan and Manish and that they had handed over the weapons to a man named Devraj after the shooting..

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