Hyderabad: A Nigerian national, Ngwuchukwu Godwin Ifeanyi, alias Godwin, was arrested by the Hyderabad Task Force and Kacheguda police for possession of drugs at Kacheguda on Monday. Police seized 7 gm of cocaine from the accused, which he was to deliver to one of his clients in the city. He was earlier arrested twice by the excise department with drugs and was out on bail.
Police said the accused adopted a dead drop method to deliver the drugs to the receivers, where the supplier and the receiver do not come into contact and do not know each other. The supplier drops the drug at a pre-identified location, from where the receiver or the user picks it up.
After coming out on bail in the excise cases, Godwin shifted base to Mumbai to evade being under surveillance and started operating from there, said Task Force DCP YVS Sudheendra on Monday.
Police said Godwin came to India in 2015 on a student visa and joined a pharmacy college in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. Taking a cue from his Nigerian friends involved in the drug business, he also joined them and started supplying cocaine. Even after his visa expired in 2016, he overstayed in India to continue the illicit trade.
He procured drugs in bulk from his sources in Mumbai or Bangalore and supplied them to users in Hyderabad.
Acting on a tip-off about his visit to Hyderabad, police caught him on Monday while he was on the way to the drop site and remanded him to judicial custody, added the official.
