Hema, a Bhojpuri film actress, and her Nigerian accomplice have been arrested in the national capital on charges of drug trafficking and three kg of heroin valued at Rs.30 million in the global market has been recovered from them, reported the police on Sunday.

Sleuths of Delhi Police Special Cell arrested Hema and Pius Onwaso Okolonta from Delhi Metro’s Nawada station in west Delhi on Saturday with 3.052 kgs of fine quality heroin.

“We laid a trap accordingly and arrested Hema when she was handing over the consignment of drugs to Pius Onwaso Okolonta. Their interrogation revealed that one Zorawar, based in Lahore, had sent the drugs and one Rummy had collected it in Jammu,”  Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said.

Hema is said to have acted in the Bhojpuri film ‘Don’ and performed item songs in two films. She has also done some modelling in various television commercials Kumar added.

Police said that Hema, a resident of Uttam Nagar, met Okolonta, who came to India on tourist visa in 2006, and staying illegally after his visa expired in December 2006, through a common friend in a bar.

Okolonta lured Hema into drug trafficking business and promised her good money for acting as a conduit. The Nigerian was involved in drug trafficking since 2006 and Hema joined him later.