A 34-year-old Nigerian drug peddler and his Kenyan girlfriend have been arrested by Goverdhan Villas police of Udaipur in India after they were allegedly caught with banned drugs, MDMA, valued at ₹5 lakhs.
Acting upon a tipoff, the Station
House Officer (SHO) Goverdhan Villas police station, Ajay Singh Rao and his
team nabbed the accused, Joseph Tobechukwu, and Lilian Nyaisiri, 32, on
Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
Both of them were staying at a
rented house located at Suro Ka Fala area near Om Banna temple falling under
Goverdhan Villas police station circle.
“It was when the Station House
Officer Goverdhan Villas police station got a tipoff that a foreign couple is
roaming in the area with huge amount of drugs in their possession and is about
to come towards the Dakshin Vistaar Yojna Road,” Deputy SP, Rajat Bishnoi
Choudhary said.
"Upon getting the
information SHO immediately launched a road barricading, during the barricading
a foreign couple was seen coming towards the police team on a black colored
scooty.
"But as soon as the said
couple saw the police team they turned back and tried to escape. But the police
chased them upto a distance of around 1.5 kilometers and nabbed them.
"When they checked as much
as 21 grams of banned drugs MdMa was found from Joseph while around 11 grams of
MdMa drugs was recovered from the clothes of female accused Lilian.
The drugs was later seized and
both the accused were booked under section 8/22 of the Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS)".
Rajat further said that during
the preliminary interrogation the accused revealed that they were staying at
their rented house since August 2023 without any police verification.
Both the accused were produced
in front of the court and were remanded under police custody.
The police will now question
them further about other people involved in the matter racket.
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