Two Nigerian women residing in New Delhi have been arrested by the police for being in possession of 700grammes of heroin in Khanna, India.
According to the Times of India, the sub-inspector, Ajmer Singh, said both accused women identified as Hope and Lisa were arrested from GT road, Khanna on Wednesday, when they alighted from a vehicle.
Singh said, “The women alighted from a vehicle and were walking towards Gobindgarh, when the police team stopped them. On frisking, the police recovered 400g heroin from Hope and 300g heroin from Lisa.”
The accused at present are .
Only in April, the police in Mumbai, India arrested a Nigerian man identified as Oliver Diba Nikki with hard drugs worth Rs 30.20 lakh (N16.4 million).
Nikki had been arrested in Andheri West in Mumbai with 200 grammes of mephedrone and 34 grammes of cocaine.
The 42-year-old Nigerian, police sources said was arrested from a bus stop near Azad Nagar metro station by the Marol unit of the Anti-Narcotics Cell.
“He has told us he was released in December 2021 in an NDPS Act case and had gone back to drug peddling. We seized 200 grammes of mephedrone and 34 grammes of cocaine cumulatively valued at Rs 30.20 lakh from him,” the policeman had added.