If the peddlers aren't fed meals with chicken, ANC officials claim, they give them nightmares by either going on a hunger strike or causing serious harm to themselves. Illustration/Uday Mohite

The city's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) is 'chicken'ing out when it comes to treatment of its drug-dealing detainees and their meals, especially when not doing so would invite a hunger strike from them. In 2017, ANC spent Rs 63,000 to feed chicken fried rice to 33 Nigerian drug peddlers.