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Nigerian woman among three held allegedly with heroin

NEW DELHI: The Delhi zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau has smashed an international drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of three persons including a Nigerian woman at Uttam Nagar here. The agency claims to have seized 4 kg of heroin of Afghan origin and 30,000 dollars.

Through surveillance, the NCB recently found that Krishna Tiwari who was lodged at Tihar Central Jail in a kidnapping case had been running a drug trafficking racket in connivance with his wife Anju.

The agency zeroed in on Anju keeping a track on her movements.

Acting on a tip-off that Anju would deliver a consignment of heroin to someone at Uttam Nagar on Saturday, the NCB sleuths laid a trap around 9 p.m. and tried to intercept a Tata Indica car in which the suspects were travelling. They waved at the driver to stop, but he tried to escape and nearly knocked the team members down in the process. However, they managed to arrest three of the occupants of the car allegedly with the consignment of heroin.

During interrogation, the three identified themselves as Anju, her cousin Rakesh and Niomi, a Nigerian woman. NCB zonal director Sandeep Mittal said: “The three accused have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.” Anju purportedly told her interrogators that she had been receiving consignments from drug suppliers and selling them to Nigerian nationals at the instance of her husband Krishna, arrested by the Mahipalpur police about four years ago for allegedly kidnapping the son of his landlord.

The agency suspects that while in jail, Krishna came in contacts with drug traffickers who initiated him into the trade.

The consignments of heroin procured allegedly by Anju, the second wife of Krishna, were being smuggled in through the Indo-Pakistan border via Punjab.

Her job was also to collect the payment on behalf of the suppliers, said a source, adding that she used to meet her husband in the jail every week for instructions.

The NCB sleuths mounted a raid at Anju’s residence in Dwarka and seized 30,000 dollars, the money she had allegedly received against a recent supply of 3 kg of heroin.

This is one of the biggest seizures of foreign currency by the agency in the country.

In March, the Delhi NCB had seized over 28,000 dollars and a consignment of heroin allegedly from two African nationals.

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