NCB arrests Nigerian, busts drug racket

 With the arrest of a Nigerian man and two Indians in Delhi, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a racket which was supplying drugs to Punjab.

The Nigerian Ifeanyi Okafor (36), and the two Punjab residents Rinku and Balwinder Singh, both 35, were arrested near Mata Roop Rani Maggo Devi Hospital in west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar on Sunday.

The Nigerian is one of the biggest suppliers of drugs to the youth of Punjab in Delhi who has been coming here especially to buy these drugs from him, said a senior NCB officer.

“The agency had received a specific tip-off in this regard and was on the look out for Okafor for the past two months,” said Rohit Sharma, Zonal Director, NCB Delhi zone.
The three were caught when the two Punjab residents had come to take 25 gm of heroin from the Nigerian near the hospital.

In the follow up search at the house of Okafor in Vipin garden area of Uttam Nagar another 180 gm of heroin and 620 gm of amphetamine were recovered, NCB officers said.
During his interrogation, Okafor, revealed that he has been dealing in drugs for the last four years, ever since he came over to India from Nigeria.

According to NCB officers, Okafor was dealing in all kinds of drugs, including heroin, amphetamine and other synthetic drugs.

Business visa
Okafor has been staying in Delhi on a business visa which got expired on May 2016.
Okafor claims that he has got his visa renewed some time back. NCB officers are verifying his claims.

Revealing the reason of coming over to Delhi from Muktsar in Punjab, another arrested person Rinku told his interrogators that he is a drug addict and was not getting high quality drugs at affordable rates in Punjab. In Delhi they can get good quality drugs at cheaper rates, he told them.

Rinku, who runs a mobile and laptop repairing shop in Muktsar, revealed that he has been coming to Delhi to buy drugs from the Nigerian for the last five months. He got hooked to drugs in his adolescence and has since been a regular addict.

The other arrested Balwinder Singh is a labourer and has been using drugs for the last15 years. He also revealed that he had recently sold off his vehicle for Rs 3 lakh and spent the entire amount to buy drugs.