The Central Intelligence Agency-2 team of Ambala police in India has apprehended a Nigerian national from New Delhi for allegedly supplying heroin to Ambala through a local supplier.
A deputy superintendent of Police, Ram Kumar told Hindustan Times on Thursday.
The accused, Martin, 47, was arrested from Vikaspuri in Tilak Nagar area of New Delhi. He will be presented before a court on Friday, CIA-2 in-charge Virender Walia said.
He was arrested in connection
with the recovery of 55.72-gram heroin and 4.53-gram (40 in number)
crank balls made of heroin from two locals, identified as Deepak alias
Dipa of Valmiki Basti and Tarsem alias Badal of Topkhana Bazar. They
were arrested on October 18 and a case has been registered at Parao
police station.
“Tarsem is a taxi driver and was sent to central
jail, while Deepak is currently under three days remand and has been
involved in providing drug peddling for several months. During
interrogation, he stated that he procured the drugs from Martin,” the
inspector said.
DSP Kumar said the team has seized drugs in at
least 15 such cases in the last one month and Martin is reportedly
involved in several other drugs cases in the state, including a recent
one in Ambala.
“His purported brother, David, is lodged in
Ambala jail in a similar case. We are verifying the facts along with his
past cases,” Walia said.
The arrest comes days after SSP Hamid
Akhtar chaired a meeting where he instructed police officers to beef up
vigilance to curb the drug menace.
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