Nigerian Arrested In Delhi For Supplying Drugs

Nigerian arrested in Delhi for supplying drugs.

Two other Punjab residents also arrested.

Nigerian was staying on business visa which expired in May.

A team from Narcotics Control Bureau on Sunday arrested a Nigerian who had been supplying drugs to a youth from Punjab. The team also apprehended two Punjab residents who were taking over the consignment of 25 gms of heroin from the Nigerian near Mata Roop Rani Maggo Devi Hospital in Uttam Nagar, Delhi on July 24.

In the follow up search at the house of the Nigerian, named Ifeanyi Okafor, in Uttam Nagar, another 180 gms of heroin and 620 gms of amphetamine was recovered.

DRUGS SUPPLIER HELD

Ifeanyi Okafor revealed that he had been dealing in drugs for the last four years, ever since he had come to India. He was staying in a rented accommodation in Vipin Garden area of Uttam Nagar, Delhi. He further revealed that he was dealing in all kinds of drugs, including heroin, amphetamine and other synthetic drugs.

Zonal Director, NCB Delhi Zone, Rohit Sharma revealed that Okafor was one of the major suppliers of drugs to the Punjabi youth. The agency had received a specific tip off in this regard and was on the look out for Okafor for the past two months, revealed Sharma.

The Nigerian, had been staying in Delhi on a business visa which got expired in May 2016. The claims of Okafor that he had got his visa renewed are being verified by the NCB.

Rimpu, one of the Punjab youth arrested, is a resident of Muktsar, Punjab. He revealed that he was a drug addict and was not getting high quality drugs at affordable rates in Punjab while in Delhi they get cheaper and good quality drugs. He had been coming to Delhi to buy drugs from the Nigerians for the last five months.

Accused Balwinder Singh is a labourer and had been taking drugs for the last 15 years. He had recently sold off his vehicle for Rs 3 lakh and spent the entire amount to fund his problem of drug addiction.

NEW TREND OF INDIGENOUS HEROIN
NCB is now inquiring into the sources from where Okafor was procuring drugs in Delhi. Top officials in the NCB have revealed that a new trend of indigenous heroin is being manufactured in illicit labs in UP and opium is being sourced from West Bengal’s Malda. This is in addition to the traditional South West Asian heroin of Afghanistan origin which has been finding its way to Delhi through Pakistan via the border states.

Sharma revealed that there have been recent reports that indigenous heroin manufactured in parts of UP was being smuggled into Delhi and from there it was reaching Punjab with the aid of some African natives.

Source:- Indiatoday