3 men including one Nigerian drug traffickers nabbed; heroin worth Rs 16 cr seized

Four men, including a Nigerian national and two from Punjab, have been arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell for allegedly running an international narcotics syndicate. 

The police said they recovered 2.8 kilograms of heroin worth Rs 16 crore, two kilograms of opium and one kilogram of alprazolam, allegedly from the accused. The accused have been identified as Harjinder Singh, alias Rindi (28), from Jalandhar, Durgesh, alias Mangal (33), from Laxmi Nagar in Delhi, Ubah Casmir Amobi (35), a Nigerian national and Abu Bakr, alias Ashwani Kumar (28), from Jalandhar.  

The Special Cell was tipped off about this syndicate active in Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan for the past three months. They were also tipped off that on November 18, a delivery of a heroin consignment would be made by one, Mangal to Harjinder at Burari Chowk in Delhi. 

A trap was laid there and the two men were apprehended. "One kilogram of white heroin was recovered from them. Another one kilogram of heroin was recovered from Mangal's scooty," said Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell). 

The two men during their interrogation disclosed that they are allegedly part of a big international narcotics syndicate and indulge in drug trafficking in Delhi and Punjab, according to the police. "In 2010, Mangal while in Tihar Jail befriended Akhtar, alias Raja. 

They got engaged in drug trafficking on a large scale. Mangal disclosed that he had supplied heroin to various persons in Punjab through his contacts. He had developed these contacts at Kapurthla jail in Punjab," said Yadav.