A Nigerian was held while delivering about 40 grams of fine quality cocaine, valued at about Rs. 40 lakh in the international market, to a person at a Metro station in west Delhi, police said.
Both Nwankwo Okechukwu Sylverster, 25, a Nigerian, and Simranjeet Singh, 26, a marketing manager in a company in Delhi, were held from at Ramesh Nagar Metro Station in west Delhi where the former had come to deliver the cocaine consignment, police said.
"Around 2.5 gm cocaine was recovered from Simaranjeet Singh and 40 gm cocaine and 30 tablets of Ecstasy (MDMA), used as a party drug in rave parties, were recovered from Nwankwo," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav.
"A case has been registered against them in this connection," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav," he added.
"The arrested Nigerian national was staying in India without valid documents. He was using a forged Indian VISA to evade deportation," the official added.
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Police said the Sylverster, the Nigerial national, had come to Mumbai in 2011 on a tourist visa and started business of exporting readymade garments to Nigeria.
During this period, he came in contact with various persons from Nigeria who were involved in drug trafficking. He shifted to Delhi and started living on rent in West Delhi area.
He then started supplying cocaine and ecstasy tablets on demand to his customers outside discotheques and hotels. The drugs were delivered to him in Delhi on the instructions of the main supplier based in Mumbai, police said.
