Four drug traffickers including a Nigerian national have been arrested on alleged charges of drug smuggling. Around 3 Kg drugs worth `16 crore in international markets, four mobile phones with many sim cards were also recovered from their possession, said police.
The arrest came out as an effect of the Delhi police's special cell detectives' search for such traffickers who are involved in drug syndicates that are active in Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, for last three months. The accused were identified as, Mangal (33), Harjinder singh (28), Nigerian national- Ubah Casmir Amobi and Ashwani.
Mangal and Singh were arrested near Burari Chowk on November 18, leading a tip-off about their arrival to deliver heroine to a client, said DCP (Special Cell) Sanjiv Kumar Yadav. Two Kg of white heroine was recovered from them, said police. After sustained interrogation, the duo had revealed about the international syndicate under which they were working and leading the information thereafter, Amobi was nabbed in Viakspuri area of West Delhi on the next day, added Yadav.
The fourth accused Ashwani alias Abu Bakr was arrested from near Seelampur fly over on November 20 evening while waiting for one drug dealer Mohammad Akhtar alias Raja to receive consignment of heroin from him. Two Kg of opium and one Kg of Alprazolam tablets were also seized from the accused drug traffickers.
Casmir had came to India in May 2015 on three months business visa but did not return to his country and was living illegally here even after expiry of visa period, the officer said.
The four accused are under judicial custody and further investigation is underway, said police.