Acting on a tip-off, police arrested the culprits from K R Puram, Banaswadi and Yelahanka areas, Central Crime Branch (CCB) police said, adding they seized from them heroin, cocaine, charas, ecstasy tablets and ganja, besides laptops, mobile phones, two two-wheelers and a car on Saturday last.
The drug peddlers have been identified as Ezeh Fidelis Oguguo (33) from Nigeria, Saeidi Mozhdeh Ehsan from Iran, Veda Prakash (Bangalore), Amaldeep Bora (Assam), R K Momovishal Singh (Manipur) and Rahul Maibam (Manipur), they said.
The Iranian had also been overstaying after his arrival here in since 2005 for studies in a college here and came in contact with Ved Prakash and began selling banned drugs, they said.
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