Pramesh Jain
The Southeast Division police of Hulimavu police on Friday arrested 42 year old nigerian national and recovered 25 grams of MDMA and nine esctasy tablets from him.
The accused has been identified as,Udemba Issac resident of Nagawara.
Senior officer told reporters,Our Hulimavu police sub-inspector,Veerana P Gullapnavar received a tip off that a Nigerian National is waiting near a dental college in Doddakamanahalli area and is in possession of synthetic Drugs.
Acting on tip-off PSI and crime staff immediately swung into action and rushed to the spot and after keeping a close watch the team raided the place and caught the Nigerian National red handed while he was waiting near a dental college in Doddakammanahalli to deliver the consignment to his customers.
During interrogation the accused confessed the crime and it has revealed that the accused had come to india in 2015 and arrested by Kothanur police for peddling drugs in 2017.
He came out of bail and over stayed in city since then again continued with his drug business.
The accused also told the police that he was sourcing the drugs from his contact identified as Ameen.
The Hulimavu police booked Udenba under NDPS and Foreigners act and efforts are on to track down Ameen.
Meanwhile yesterday, Mico-layout police inspector,RS Choudhary and his crime staff has arrested two drug peddlers identified as,Jilal Khan and Nishanth Hariram and Recovered,12kg Marijuana,69 LSD Strips,22 grams of MDMA powder,and 22 Ecstasy tablets Seized from them.
Kamal Pant,Commissioner of Bengaluru city, tweeted by saying,Based on an informant’s tip,the @hulimavups team arrested a foreign national for drug trafficking.The accused used to sell drugs near Maruti Dental College.MDMA & Ecstacy tabs have been seized.Further investigation is underway,A reward of Rs.20K has been announced to the team.That’s some exceptional work, team. Keep it up he congratulated the team.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP,Southeast,Srinath Mahadev Joshi,ACP, Electronic city Sub-Division,Pawan N,PI,Mahesh Kanakagiri,PSI, Veerana P Gullapnavar,and crime staff as,Rajashekar and Ashok who has successfully nabbed the Nigerian drug peddler and recovered Synthetic Drugs from him and for the commendable job done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.