TThe Govindpura police on Monday arrested two drug peddlers, considered one of them a international nationwide, in separate instances and recovered cocaine and brown sugar value ₹2.5 crore.
The accused has been recognized as Chibueze Chinonso, 32, a resident of HBR Format who claimed he was from Nigeria. Nevertheless, the police are nonetheless verifying these particulars as he didn’t have any journey paperwork on him. A senior police officer mentioned Chinonso sourced cocaine from Brazil to Delhi by his contacts with worldwide drug peddlers. “The accused used to smuggle medication into town by practice and was promoting it to celebrities and celebration organisers,” mentioned a police official.
In one other case, the police nabbed a peddler from Maharashtra, recognized as Srikanth, and recovered 2.4 kg of brown sugar value ₹1.2 crore from him. “He sourced medication from his contacts in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and provided it to native peddlers right here for ₹5,000 per gram,” mentioned the police.
The accused has been booked underneath Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act and brought into custody.