Nigerian, accomplice held with heroin worth Rs 5 crore

Tribune News Service

Mohali, March 29

The Mohali police have arrested a Nigerian national and his Ugandan woman friend and recovered 1 kg of heroin, worth around Rs 5 crore, from their possession. 

The accused have been identified as Neubuz Naigor from Nigeria and Heelan from Uganda.

Mohali Senior Superintendent of Police Kuldeep Singh Chahal said both accused had been nabbed following the arrest of three persons, including two women, from whom the police had recovered 500 gm of heroin, worth Rs 2.5 crore, two days ago. 

“During interrogation, the trio had stated that they had procured the heroin from the Nigerian national and his friend, both putting up in Delhi,” said Chahal.   

The Mohali CIA wing conducted a raid on their rented accommodation in Delhi and nabbed them with the booty.

The police said earlier Naigor and Heelan had visited India in 2011 on a tourist visa for three months. “They again came here last month on a six-month tourist visa. The accused posed as cloth merchants, but were drug peddlers,” said the SSP.  During preliminary interrogation, the foreign nationals said they used to get the drug from another Nigerian national, staying in Noida.  “Investigations are on in this regard,” said the police.  Both accused were produced before a local court, which remanded them in five-day police custody.  A case has been registered under Sections 21, 22, 25, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act at the Mataur police station here.