Cops bust drugs cartel, 3 arrested

The Delhi police has busted a narcotics racket with the arrest of a Nigerian and two persons from Punjab on Monday. They were supplying drugs in the city.

Officials said the network for “supplying drugs to Punjab youth” was busted by the Delhi zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The agency has seized about 825 gm of the contraband.

NCB officials identified the Nigerian as Ifeanyi Okafor (36) who has been living on rent in Uttam Nagar area here after he came to India on a business visa that had expired in May this year, they said. The Punjab-based men have been identified as Rimpu (35), a resident of Muktsar, and Balwinder S. (35).

“Okafor revealed he has been dealing in drugs ever since he had come to India four years ago. He was dealing in all kinds of drugs, including heroin, amphetamine and other synthetic drugs,” NCB zonal director Rohit Sharma said.

The three were held during an illegal transaction of 25 gm of heroin in Uttam Nagar on Sunday night, the police said.

Sharma said Okafor was one of the major suppliers of drugs to Punjabi youth who had been coming to Delhi to procure their consignments from him. “The agency had received a specific tip-off in this regard and was on the look-out for Okafor for the past two months,” he said.

The NCB said that Rimpu divulged that he was not getting high quality drugs at affordable rates in Punjab, hence he was sourcing them from Delhi. Balwinder S. had recently sold off his vehicle for Rs 3 lakh and spent the entire amount to procure drugs, the agency claimed.

The NCB is trying to identify the sources from where Okafor was procuring drugs in Delhi even as they suspect that indigenous heroin manufactured in parts of Uttar Pradesh was being smuggled into Delhi and subsequently reaching Punjab with the help of some African operatives.