The Delhi Police recently detained two drug traffickers, including a Nigerian national, and recovered more than 3 kg of high-quality MDMA valued at more than Rs 4 crore from them. According to the Delhi Police, the Crime Branch’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) detained Sanatan Goswami on the fourteenth and Ikechukwu on Wednesday. “The captured contraband had been traced to suppliers in Delhi-NCR, with connections to shipping routes extending into Himachal and Goa, and confirmed materials of certain drugs determined back to Delhi, indicating a complex international operation,” Sanjay Bhatia, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), said on Thursday.
A squad led by inspectors Jasbir and Vikas Pannu, under the direction of Raj Kumar, an assistant commissioner of Police, while Bhisham Singh, Deputy Commissioner of the police, arrested Goswami, a local drug vendor from Ghaziabad, near Kalibari Apartments in Delhi’s Gol Market, following a tip-off. According to the police, the team also recovered 33 grams of MDMA from Goswami, which is considered a commercial quantity under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The police filed a FIR, or initial information report, under Sections 22 and 25 of the NDPS Act. The police stated their probe proved Goswami’s involvement in selling narcotics to affluent districts of Delhi, such as Connaught Place. Further investigation resulted in the arrest of one of his suppliers, Ikechukwu.