Two Africans held with heroin worth ₹5 lakh
NEWDELHI: Delhi Police on Sunday said they had arrested two foreign nationals from west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar with 50 grams of heroin worth around Rs 5 lakh in the international market.
Police said the arrested men are members of an international syndicate, which is involved in trafficking of drugs into India and supplying them to their Indian counterparts.
Santosh Kumar Meena, additional deputy commissioner of police (Dwarka), said the arrested men, identified as Sace Lirbat, 33, and Okna Andern, 29, are citizens of Côte d’ivoire, a west African country also known as Ivory Coast. “The arrested foreign nationals were staying in India illegally. They did not have valid passports,” said Meena.
The additional DCP said that on May 28, the anti-narcotics squad of Dwarka district police had received information that two men , who were involved in supply of narcotics, visiting Uttam Nagar area to deliver a consignment of heroin to another drug peddler.
“The team developed the information and a trap was laid the same evening at Som Bazar in Om Vihar Phase-3, Uttam Nagar. Around midnight, the raiding team spotted two foreign nation- als and tried to corner them,” said Meena.
The suspects, however, sensed trouble and tried to flee from the spot. The police team thene chased them on foot. As the road was under repair and in a dilapidated condition, both the suspects tripped and fell on the road and were overpowered, said the additional DCP.
FAKE CURRENCY SYNDICATE BUSTED, KINGPIN HELD
The 42-year-old alleged kingpin of a syndicate, involved in smuggling and supply of fake Indian currency notes, was arrested on Thursday from Haryana’s Rohtak by the special cell.
Police recovered ₹30,000 in fake notes, which were in the denomination of 2,000 rupee notes.
A native of Rohtak, Narendra alias Secretary, was wanted by the special cell since January this year when his associate was caught with ₹3 lakh in fake notes. A reward of ₹1 lakh was announced for his arrest.
Police said Narendra had been arrested thrice earlier with fake currency notes by Faridabad, Sirsa, and Rohtak police. Special cell sleuths had arrested him in 2016 with fake notes worth ₹3 lakh. Narendra is involved in over 30 cases of robbery, dacoity, smuggling of fake notes that are registered against him in Delhi, Haryana, and Rajasthan.
Pramod Singh Kushwah, deputy commissioner of police (special cell), said this syndicate was smuggling fake Indian currency notes into India from neighbouring countries through porous borders. After Narendra was bailed out in 2017, special cell sleuths were constantly monitoring his movements and activities, said Kushwah.