Nigerian Drug Peddler Arrested In India
A 36-year-old Nigerian man was arrested by the Narcotics Intelligence
Bureau CID in Chennai, India on Sunday, February 10, for allegedly
supplying heroin and ecstasy tablets to the resorts, pubs and hotels
along the East Coast Road (ECR).
According Deccan Chronicle, the suspect identified as Ikechukwu had
come to India on a business visa in the garb of carrying out a garments
business three years ago.
Officers said Ikechukwu had come to India in 2015 and his visa had
already expired. He migrated for a short period to Tirupur, where he was
engaged in the T-shirts exports business along with a few other
Nigerian friends.
Last year, Ikechukwu allegedly came to Chennai and was involved in
drug peddling, targeting college students and IT workers, who partied at
the resorts and pubs along the ECR and also used them to expand his
business.
Meanwhile, on Sunday based on a specific tip-off, the sleuths
arrested Ikechukwu from a resort at Neelankarai and seized ten grams of
heroin and 100 grams of ketamine worth Rs 6 lakhs from him.
NIB-CID sleuths registered a case and arrested the Nigerian under
Section 14 of Foreigners Act apart from the possession of drugs under
Sections 8 (c) read with 22 (b) of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances Act.
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