Police Unwraps The Smuggling Nexus At Delhi

1. Drugs In Punjab – Police Unwraps The Smuggling Nexus At Delhi. Delhi police have arrested an African couple along with two Punjab based dealers and recovered 4kg heroin worth Rs 16 crore in the international market from them. “The group’s kingpin Micheal Chinedu Chukwudi, a Nigerian national, his wife Catherine Leonard Mrope from Tanzania and drug suppliers from Kapurthala in Punjab were arrested on Saturday,” Delhi deputy commissioner of police (DCP special cell) Sajiv Kumar Yadav said. During interrogation, the duo admitted that they used to supply heroin in Punjab and Delhi-NCR. Micheal, who lived at Pochanpur in Dwarka, had rented two-three apartments there and a house in Gurgaon where he used to keep heroin. In similar raids conducted in Dwarka and Gurgaon and the kingpin of the cartel was arrested and 1kg heroin was recovered from him, the official said. During interrogation, Michael admitted that his friends had contacts in Pakistan and Afghanistan and they used to send heroin to him through human couriers as well as courier deliveries. He was supplying heroin to Punjab for past six months, the DCP said. Micheal also admitted to forging South African passport as his Nigerian one had expired. Apart from their Nigerian and Tanzanian passports, counterfeit South African passports with stickers of fake visa of India and immigration stamps were recovered from the couple, confirmed DCP.