Nigerian Alongside 3 Others Arrested for Drug Trafficking in India

India seems to be the new hub for drug trafficking as a couple of Nigerians have been nabbed in illicit drug deals in less than a week.

According to India Today, Delhi Police special cell has arrested four key members of an international narcotic drug cartel.


The accused have been identified as Surender Singh, Balwinder Singh, Micheal Chinedu Chukwudi from Nigeria and Catherine Leonard Mrope a Tanzanian National he presently residing at Sector 38, Gurgaon.

About 4 kilograms of heroin were recovered from the drug suppliers. Several mobile handsets along with SIM cards used in drug trafficking have also been recovered.

The police also recovered a car. Police said that the international value of recovered heroin is over Rs 16 crores. The accused were under watch for last few months. Investigations revealed that the heroin was brought by the African nationals and are supplied to Punjab and Delhi-NCR.

On July 30, the police received information that two persons Balwinder Singh and Surender Singh came to Delhi and had procured a big consignment of heroin from African nationals from Dwarka. The police got information that both Bindar and Surender were to supply herion near Rohini jail.

Acting on the information, the police laid a trap near the petrol pump and arrested the duo. The accused disclosed that they were part of a massive international narcotic syndicate. They told the police that they used to supply heroin to various persons of Punjab and Delhi-NCR. Both disclosed that they used to get supply of heroin from persons of African origin in Pochanpur, Dwarka area.

They also told that they had received consignment of 3 kg heroin from the African nationals. They also told that these suppliers have taken two-three flats in Pochanpur and one house in Sector-38 Gurgaon, Haryana on rent, where they used to keep heroin.

The police formed two teams conducted simultaneous raids at both the hideouts in Dwarka and Gurgaon. During this operation, the main kingpin of this cartel namely Micheal Chinedu Chukwudi was arrested from his rented house in Gurgaon and one kg heroin was recovered from him. Two passports were also recovered from his house.

In the other raid at other rented house of said Nigerian, two more passports from Tanzania and South Africa having photographs of his wife Catherine Leonard Mrope were recovered.