3 drug peddlers including a Nigerian arrested; heroin seized

Three drug peddlers including a Nigerian national have been arrested in separate raids leading to recovery of fine-quality heroin and cocaine estimated to be worth Rs 1.70 crore in the international market, police said today.

A Crime Branch team caught Nigerian Omokhogie Sunny, 49, on specific inputs from Janakpuri district centre, with 55 gram cocaine worth Rs 35 lakh. He was also carrying Rs 1.14 lakh in cash at the time of his arrest, Joint Commissioner (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said.Sunny who had come to India for doing business, in December 2015 took to drug peddling after suffering heavy losses. He lived at Mahavir Enclave in Palam and his daughter is studying in Hyderabad, the officer said.

The Crime Branch sleuths arrested one Nawab, a resident of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, near Kashmere Gate ISBT and found 200 gram of fine-quality heroin on him. The contraband carried by him was worth Rs 60 lakh in the international market, he said.

Another drug peddler Om Prakash was arrested by the Crime Branch from Nangloi in west Delhi. He was found to be carrying 260 gram of fine-quality heroin worth Rs 75 lakh, Yadav said.

Nawab and Om Prakash received drug from Bareilly based suppliers for delivery in Delhi.

Sunny had received 100 gm cocaine from a fellow Nigerian in Mumbai and had already sold 45 gram of it. Further investigation is on to unearth linkages of the arrested drug peddlers, the officer said.