Chandigarh, June 9: With at least 10 Delhi-based Nigerian nationals having been arrested for drug peddling in Chandigarh and SAS Nagar since January, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) says a bulk of drug supply, especially heroin, to Chandigarh area is being brought from the national capital.
The NCB on Wednesday nabbed a Nigerian national in Sector 17, the latest such incident. The accused, Eze Uchenna James, stayed in Delhi.
“The recent arrests made by NCB and other agencies make it clear that drugs to Chandigarh, Panchkula, SAS Nagar and Punjab are being brought from Delhi,” NCB zonal director Kaustubh Sharma said.
It was for third time that Eze Uchenna James came to drug supply to his clients in the city on Wednesday evening, he is learnt to have told the investigators. The accused, who had kept the contraband in a small bag, was arrested near Mela Ground, Sector-17, Chandigarh.
NCB officials said James along with his wife and child came to India in April this year. He has told NCB that he is into the trading clothes which he used from purchase from Tamil Nadu. Preliminary probe has revealed that earlier, James’s friend Refel was arrested in Haryana’s Sirsa district in a drug peddling case. The police had seized 13 gram heroin from him.
“African nationals with Delhi connect are figuring time and again in cases of drug smuggling. Contraband reaches Delhi and then sent for consumption to Chandigarh, Panchkula, SAS Nagar and Punjab,” said the NCB director.
Atul Soni, in-charge, Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), SAS Nagar, said, “We have arrested nine Nigerian national, including a woman, in the past four months. In all cases, the accused were getting heroin from Delhi.”
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