By IANS
New Delhi : A Nigerian national has been arrested here with 30 gm of cocaine worth Rs.150,000 in the global market, the police said Thursday.
Oluwasegun Sesan, 28, a resident of Lagos in Nigeria, was arrested Wednesday evening after he arrived at Delhi’s domestic airport in Go-Air, a private airline, from Mumbai to supply the said contraband in the capital.
“We had received information that Sesan, who was residing in east Mumbai, has been supplying drugs to customers in Mumbai and Delhi. It was also learnt that he would come to supply drugs in the capital,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Narcotics) A.S. Cheema said.
“Sesan, during interrogation, disclosed that he had first time visited India in 2004 and stayed in Mumbai for six months. Again he came to India on employment visa in September 2006 and came in touch with one Ibrahim, who is a notorious cocaine peddler of Mumbai,” Cheema said.
He added that Ibrahim lured the accused into this trade and directed him to supply the drugs in the capital.