Heroin worth Rs 16 crore seized in Delhi, Nigerian, his Tanzanian wife, 2 from Punjab arrested

Four persons including a couple from abroad were held for supplying heroin, worth Rs 16 crore in the international market, said police Monday.

 A Special Cell team arrested Micheal Chinedu Chukwudi, a Nigerian, his wife Catherine Leonard Mrope, a Tanzanian, and two Punjab-based drug suppliers, Surender Singh and Balwinder Singh — both from Kapurthala — and recovered 4 kg of heroin from them, said police.
DCP Sanjeev Yadav said, “The main receivers, Balwinder and Surender, who supplied drugs in various parts of Punjab and Delhi-NCR, had received 3 kg of fine quality heroin from Micheal, and were going to supply it near a petrol pump close to Rohini jail on July 30 when they were caught.”

Balwinder and Surender revealed Micheal had two to three flats in Pochanpur in Dwarka and one in sector 38 in Gurgaon, said police.

Raids were conducted and Micheal was arrested from his rented house in Gurgaon and 1 kg heroin was recovered from there, said police.

In another raid his wife was arrested for illegally staying in India for nearly two years, and for forgery and possession of fake passport, said Yadav.

Police recovered the couple’s original passports as well as fake South African passports with stickers of fake Indian visa and immigration stamps. Michael revealed his friends in African nations had contacts in Pakistan and Afghanistan and sent him heroin through human couriers and courier deliveries, said police.